Federal pay sucks by design. If you want to work for .gov, you want state/local government.
The Feds want to contract out for anything they can. So you work for Lockheed or whatever and get most of the attributes of government employment.
The Feds want to contract out for anything they can. So you work for Lockheed or whatever and get most of the attributes of government employment.
In my indirect experience with Lockheed, their pay wasn’t that much better than being federal (they’re still a huge federal contractor and aren’t exactly boutique). It seems like a lot when you’re used to $80-90k as a senior engineer though for years to bump into $110k on a whim (this is without being particularly special or niche, the over-funded “cyber” contracts get anyone that can read and write shellcode $140k+ which is a ton of people at NSA).
The much bigger problem hitting defense as a whole is that smaller contractors that specialized in being nimble and elite are basically being driven out of business due to federal contracting trend shifts post-sequester. Myself and many others have permanently left the IC out of exasperation with contractors now getting oftentimes less than their federal counterparts and a severe drought of technologically interesting contracts that make business sense.
Right, and the profits flow to a couple people who essentially own the contract. It’s essentially modern day aristocracy, except the contracts are more valuable to farm out to peasants than land is.
State and local government employees are paid well? Where? Which ones?
It all depends on what is valuable to you.
Not to my knowledge. Which ones for what jobs, do you happen to know?
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