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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]$150k with lots of leave and not that much stress (in many but not all positions). [/quote]

What % of feds ever see $150k? I would bet less than 5% or 10%.[/quote]

…  Now, there are other scales, including SE, but even on those scales, guesstimate that only about 1-1.5% of the workforce would be over $150K.  I would say it is highly unlikely that there is more than 4% of the workforce that makes over $150K.
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This may be an underestimate. Only something like 70% of the federal workforce is on the General Schedule. There are some lower-paid Wage Grade employees, but also all the SES (and SL and ST) and the special pay plans for SEC, Fed, FDIC, plus all the augmentations for medical professionals and IT professionals across many agencies. Most of those other scales exist explicitly to provide higher levels of compensation than the GS. So I suspect there are a lot of highly paid federal employees missed by this data. [/quote]

There are 7000 SES in the federal government, compared to 50,000 TSA agents. We are skewed in DC since half the SES are here but if you look at the total federal workforce around the world there are a lot more GS7 DOD supply clerks and GS9 VA nurses than high level DC bureaucrats.[/quote]

Absolutely true. But the finregs have twice as many employees as the SES, and the VHA has hundreds of thousands of employees. Their nurses aren’t all GS9s. They’re mostly on the VN scale and there are almost a hundred thousand of them. Everything over a VN-3 is above $150K a year. That’s something like 5,000 nurses. The Medical Officers are on the VM scale, they’re basically ALL over $150K and there are about 30,000 of them.

So yeah, the GS scale may be only 5% above that threshold and that’s only 75,000 people or something, but when you add in all the other pay scales that might double the total. [/quote]

I’m sure it does double the total, but we still have around 2 million federal employees and maybe 10% that we’ve found who are SES, finreg, VM, or other special pay above GS. We have as many federal firefighters with really low pay as finreg employees, or border patrol agents, or park rangers. Federal jobs around the country are really different and often cap at a much lower grade.[/quote]

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