NSA’s top talent is leaving because of low pay, flagging morale, unpopular reorg

Re:NSA’s top talent is leaving because of low pay, flagging ... by ENOTTY on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @10:59PM (#16058246)

That simply isn't true. Via fedsdatacenter.com, the highest paid employee of a federal government agency earns $403,849. Note that this dataset excludes sensitive government agencies. https://i.imgur.com/bgFxOkh.png

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Re:NSA’s top talent is leaving because of low pay, flagging ... by GlenTheMachine on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @11:21PM (#16058357)

Here is the executive order, signed by President Obama, governing the pay for all federal employees, including the GS and SES scales. It tops out at $207,000 per year.

I'm not saying that there is no civil servant anywhere who makes more than that. But such positions are extremely rare. The Vice President only makes $240,000.

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries...

If you read the fine print, the executive order allows agency-level directors of the Department of Veterans' Affairs who are physicians to be paid market rates. That is probably who these people are.

This exemption doesn't appear to apply to any other agency or profession.

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Re:NSA’s top talent is leaving because of low pay, flagging ... by rgbrenner on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @12:53AM (#16058817)

TVA, a federally owned corp, had its salaries uncapped by congress in 2004. If not for that law, they would be subject to the cap also.

Also, that $995k for the CEO is just the base salary.. his full comp package is about $6.5m

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