Molson Hart

It seems that DC has undergone a 10 year economic boom. That said, if Congressmen are now mostly living in their districts, should that put them more in touch with the people than out? Getting a drink or dinner builds trust in all industries and cultures, amazingly effective.

Agencies not Congressmen. Fed employee salaries have increased the gap between their salary and median incomes in their fields. They live in rich cities. Their kids go to elite public schools. Hard for the DOE to understand resurgent mfg skills opportunity in that setting.

Federal agency regulatory employees are now making good money?

Yes. They are out paid at every level vs private sector, save the most-educated. And that last group is skewed for a number of reasons. Could do a whole thread on that. From the CBO: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52637&ved=2ahUKEwjqgoXv7PHlAhVfHjQIHR7yC4QQFjAAegQIAxAB&usg=AOvVaw2E78eBZjcsoIgiFJA69SHI …

Why the most-educated Fed Employees aren't underpaid as they claim. A thread: 1) Fed jobs are significantly over-graded on the GS scale. A phenomenon the Feds own HR and IG offices have noted back to the 70s. Over-grading increases pay and requires higher education.

Feds reimburse education, too so it's affordable to inflate credentials to match an inflated job role. 2) Feds have more bloat. Those 350 contract review lawyers your multinational has that are relatively low paid for their field - the Fed has 35,000. Leads to incomparable pools

3) The GS scale provides a lower upper limit of reimbursement than the private sector. An enormously talented fed will never be paid stock options and million dollar salaries by the fed govnt. And this point is the big one. So it gets several tweets.

They will never be paid that by the govnt. So it's not included in govnt compensation comparisons. They ARE paid those figures by the private sector, if they leave govnt though. And I'd argue Fed employees have the opportunity to get such lucrative positions in greater numbers