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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]49 with a 19 month old and they are both unemployed. Wow.[/quote]

It really jumped out at me how late most of these people had kids! The 51 year old with a 4 year old? The 56 year old with 12 year old twins? 44 with an infant? Is there some correlation to ancient parenting and working at USAID?[/quote]

My first thought was USAID must have had great fertility benefits on their health care plan.[/quote]

I think it's what PPs said. USAID jobs "in the field" are really hard with young kids, not least because some were unaccompanied. It does not surprise me at all that folks waited to have kids until they had enough seniority/experience to either be in DC or to opt out of postings like DRC or even Kyiv.

As regards the larger article, I think the reporter chose highly-compensated folks at the tail end of their careers, so at the highest pay grade they would ever achieve. The vast majority of USAID employees, or USAID implementers, never touched that pay grade. [/quote]

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