He’s a civil servant. Depends on what grade he is assigned there steps in each grade. Nurse practitioners ( not managers) make 120000 plus a year
My point is that someone above called him “low-level”, as if a job paying that much is of little consequence. Granted, many government employees “lean on their shovels” all day, but one imagines that their job descriptions ostensibly require them to perform above “low level” for that kind of money.