Anonymous
05/08/2014 17:39
Subject: If you love your job, pays well, and flexible
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:high level admin in federal agency - work 32 hours a week, 100k, very flexible telework policy, great co-workers. The day to day can be tedious, but i wouldn't trade it.
This is criminal. I DO NOT understand how an admin working less than full time can make 100k. This is one of the main problems the govt should fix on the road to financial recovery.
That's nothing. Just look at the contractors we give "hazard pay" to work in some base far from the front lines in other countries. $300 or $400k a year for a junior systems admin is totally within reason.
Who says an admin is any less worthy of a good salary than a lawyer or IT manager?
Oh come on, let's not play dumb here. Fair or not, the market rewards attorneys much more than administrative staff. Maybe because it takes a lot more education, maybe because attorneys do more substantive work, who knows. But this is hardly news.
Anonymous
05/08/2014 17:16
Subject: If you love your job, pays well, and flexible
Anonymous wrote:you also realize that $9.5K is only slightly over 4% of their base. that is not a very large bonus by just about anybody's standards.
It's a huge bonus by my standards. But then again, I'm a fed who rarely gets any bonuses because my agency is stingy with them unless you are a GS 14 and above. The couple bonuses I've managed to get over the past 10 years were within-grade step increases. Would love to get a bonus of slightly over 4%.
Anonymous
05/08/2014 17:06
Subject: Re:If you love your job, pays well, and flexible
Who says an admin is any less worthy of a good salary than a lawyer or IT manager?[b]
+10000. Ditto. Attorneys think that three years in law school make them deserving of more money than anyone else. It's disgusting.
+10000. Ditto. Attorneys think that three years in law school make them deserving of more money than anyone else. It's disgusting.
Anonymous
05/08/2014 16:49
Subject: Re:If you love your job, pays well, and flexible
+1 I agree!!
Anonymous
05/08/2014 14:31
Subject: If you love your job, pays well, and flexible
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:high level admin in federal agency - work 32 hours a week, 100k, very flexible telework policy, great co-workers. The day to day can be tedious, but i wouldn't trade it.
This is criminal. I DO NOT understand how an admin working less than full time can make 100k. This is one of the main problems the govt should fix on the road to financial recovery.
That's nothing. Just look at the contractors we give "hazard pay" to work in some base far from the front lines in other countries. $300 or $400k a year for a junior systems admin is totally within reason.
Who says an admin is any less worthy of a good salary than a lawyer or IT manager?
Anonymous
05/08/2014 11:15
Subject: If you love your job, pays well, and flexible
Anonymous wrote:Big 4 consulting. Work from home 2 x a week or more depending on the project I'm on. Minimal travel since most of the work in my specialty area is in the Washington DC area. Make great money, great benefits. Sometimes the work week is long, but at other times I'm barely working 40 hours a week. It all evens out.
how great is the money?
care to disclose?
Anonymous
05/08/2014 08:43
Subject: If you love your job, pays well, and flexible
Big 4 consulting. Work from home 2 x a week or more depending on the project I'm on. Minimal travel since most of the work in my specialty area is in the Washington DC area. Make great money, great benefits. Sometimes the work week is long, but at other times I'm barely working 40 hours a week. It all evens out.
Anonymous
05/07/2014 23:31
Subject: If you love your job, pays well, and flexible
I work with the lawyers at the Fed and they work their asses off. Frequently have early morning meetings and then work into the nights/weekends, especially if they are within one month of getting something to the Board for a vote,
FDIC lawyers just play with their iPads all day and get paid waaaaay more than Fed lawyers. FDIC is the highest pay in government with the shortest hours and most flexibility.
FDIC lawyers just play with their iPads all day and get paid waaaaay more than Fed lawyers. FDIC is the highest pay in government with the shortest hours and most flexibility.
Anonymous
05/07/2014 20:59
Subject: Re:If you love your job, pays well, and flexible
I suspect the poster complaining about the fin reg lawyers is thinking of observations made of particular people at a particular agency -- and those same observations would apply equally to nonlawyers. 
If not more so.
If not more so.
Anonymous
05/07/2014 15:06
Subject: If you love your job, pays well, and flexible
Anonymous wrote:IT
I can do it from home if need be ...good boss and pay.
+1
Anonymous
05/07/2014 14:50
Subject: If you love your job, pays well, and flexible
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:you also realize that $9.5K is only slightly over 4% of their base. that is not a very large bonus by just about anybody's standards.
But it is better than their colleagues in other professions who are in those agencies, who don't come close to those bonuses, if they get one at all. Absurd.
Not sure who exactly you are complaining about. Examiners get six figure pay with no graduate education, compensation for traveling, and stipends to cover all their meals while at a bank -- senior management is almost exclusively former examiners, all of whom are paid well over $200,000. I think they make out pretty well. Don't really know what economists make or how hard they are put to work, seems to be a pretty nine to five position. Admins are already paid well over market rate for their services. Really difficult to see who has room to complain about their pay at the banking agencies, especially relative to the lawyers, who actually do way more work than the posters give them credit for.
Anonymous
05/07/2014 11:19
Subject: If you love your job, pays well, and flexible
Anonymous wrote:you also realize that $9.5K is only slightly over 4% of their base. that is not a very large bonus by just about anybody's standards.
But it is better than their colleagues in other professions who are in those agencies, who don't come close to those bonuses, if they get one at all. Absurd.
Anonymous
05/07/2014 11:17
Subject: Re:If you love your job, pays well, and flexible
Anonymous wrote:also, to the PP who said that attorneys working for financial regulators make too much, they obviously don't know that the majority of these attorneys took 50 to 60% pay cuts to work in the govt. obviously not all govt attorney had the possibility of working at a law firm, but that's what the market actually paid some of the ones who left the private sector to join the govt.
They also get better hours in the governmennt , several days of telework a week, and by and large, a 9 to 5 schedule. Bank Examiners, Financial Analysts, Economists, HR People, Administrative People don't see those kinds of increases/bonuses in those places. Many of them work damn hard too. No one is crying for the attorneys because they took pay cuts. We need to scale down the pay of all of these overpaid people and put more equity into these places. How to do that - well, I don't know. Sorry.
Ha! They couldn't cut it in the private sector so they fled to the government, where they are paid for laziness, reading the newspaper each morning on the toilet, and bullshitting with colleagues.