Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not a very cushy job this month...
Or very cushy, (if you don't mind not getting paid).
I'm not sure how being out of work without pay is cushy...
US Federal Employee Salaries (2012)
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Re: US Federal Employee Salaries (2012)
#22Even with a ~40K standard dev I'd say that's a well paid lot.
You have to remember that most actual employees are white-collar types. Almost anything commoditizable or blue-collar gets sent to contractors. Also, let's not forget the cost of living in DC.
Most federal employees aren't in DC.
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#23Even with a ~40K standard dev I'd say that's a well paid lot.
You have to remember that most actual employees are white-collar types. Almost anything commoditizable or blue-collar gets sent to contractors. Also, let's not forget the cost of living in DC.
I thought this was for all federal employees. I couldn't see all of the data due to some 10 page limit error that kept being displayed.
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#24wow a librarian at a GS14 level: [name removed] DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE LIBRARIAN Maryland Prince George's County BELTSVILLE GS 14 119238 I know the GS schedule is based on how long you work as opposed to how well you work, but i didn't think that non-STEM or non-Management roles made above GS11 or 12.
GS isn't based entirely on how long you work. Most positions have a cap. There are also plenty of places that generally don't promote people because the management sucks or they don't have funding. There are also ways to prevent substandard employees from getting promoted.
Perhaps the term librarian means something other than what we think it does, like the librarian of congress. Perhaps its a supervisor at an enormous library. I really hope we aren't paying 90k+ for someone to check out books about farming.
Re: US Federal Employee Salaries (2012)
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
You have to remember that most actual employees are white-collar types. Almost anything commoditizable or blue-collar gets sent to contractors. Also, let's not forget the cost of living in DC.
Most federal employees aren't in DC.
~161k are! second only to "N/A": http://cl.ly/image/3U2K232E3102
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#27This does not include federal court employees (judges, attorneys...)
Re: US Federal Employee Salaries (2012)
#28wow a librarian at a GS14 level: [name removed] DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE LIBRARIAN Maryland Prince George's County BELTSVILLE GS 14 119238 I know the GS schedule is based on how long you work as opposed to how well you work, but i didn't think that non-STEM or non-Management roles made above GS11 or 12.
GS isn't based entirely on how long you work. Most positions have a cap. There are also plenty of places that generally don't promote people because the management sucks or they don't have funding. There are also ways to prevent substandard employees from getting promoted. Perhaps the term librarian means something other than what we think it does, like the librarian of congress. Perhaps its a supervisor at an enormo…
I would assume they help keep track of / index the massive amount of government-sponsored agricultural research & data the DoA has generated. "[The Agricultural Research Service] has more than 2,200 permanent scientists working on approximately 1,100 research projects at more than 100 locations", to say nothing of historical data.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure how being out of work without pay is cushy...
They'll be paid back when the government is no longer shut down. So if you have savings, it's essentially a forced paid vacation.
With a backlog of work to do once you return. Its not like an office or factory suspending operations because there is no work. Many of these people have deadlines that they won't be able to meet without a great deal of effort and likely overtime (if granted). So not only does this shutdown give them a "paid vacation" it's going to pay extra so that the work can still get done close to on time.
Re: US Federal Employee Salaries (2012)
#30Even with a ~40K standard dev I'd say that's a well paid lot.
You have to remember that most actual employees are white-collar types. Almost anything commoditizable or blue-collar gets sent to contractors. Also, let's not forget the cost of living in DC.
>Also, let's not forget the cost of living in DC.
For the folks misunderstanding that comment:
The link goes straight to at least ten pages of positions with USDA which is located in Beltsville, about 10 miles outside of DC. Bethesda and Rockville, both of which are in the top five, are other also DC suburbs. At a glance there are 300K+ positions in the DMV area, a significant percentage of the 1.3M listed.