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It is striking to me that the US government is trying to hire an associate director for a cybersecurity group for about $10k less than Google pays a software engineer with zero years of experience (according to levels.fyi)

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Thanks so much for the flag, Kim! Here’s the link to apply for folks who are interested: usajobs.gov/job/631225400. Salary range starts at $187K.

2:56 AM · Jan 16, 2022

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US federal government job salaries are uniform across fields and capped by federal law. Part of the reason the government outsources a lot of tech work is that they can’t hire anyone at these salaries but they can pay big bucks for contracts

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Uniform across fields seems like a big tactical error to me. In my private sector experience the strategy at huge organizations is more like, hire a firm to do a survey per field & location, pick some n, and offer nth percentile salaries. Seems to work pretty well

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“Ah yes, but we also want to hire for the public service ethos” “Is that why you have public universities with $1m football coaches?”

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Wait till you hear how much the president makes …