Inside Obama's stealth startup

Re:Inside Obama's stealth startup by jsolson on Monday June 15, 2015 @02:44PM (#9721182)

I know two people who went to do this (and have stayed on past their initial six month terms). I think they're insane, but they are fantastic engineers. Even at the top of the GS pay scale, they're making ~half what they were in their prior industry jobs. The government just doesn't pay that well, and as far as I know the pay scale is congressionally managed.

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Re:Inside Obama's stealth startup by sehugg on Monday June 15, 2015 @03:37PM (#9721492)

If you stick around for the long-term, you can make $130k-150k as a GS-15, work eight-hour days, and get a sweet pension at 55 instead of the Logan's Run layoff-crystal going off when you turn 30.

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Re:Inside Obama's stealth startup by jsolson on Monday June 15, 2015 @03:44PM (#9721534)

As I understand it they both started at GS15 step 10, which even with the cost of living decrease moving to DC still puts them around half where they were before.

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