You are a GS five and you’re scraping by at $24,000?
Bull cheese. I looked at the pay scale. Even a step one is at 28,495. Hell is that even minimum-wage?
Maybe he means the take home pay after taxes, etc.
Not all GS-5’s through 11 are full time. Some are “Seasonal”, some are part time, some are merely “occasionally”.
Examples are test administrators for various areas, IRS, and the Department of Forestry.
Like any job, there are some that are very mundane, yet important. For examples munitions on a military base. They need to be under security, JT that is typically a boring job. Some folks have the opportunity to work for NASA. They get paid exactly the same as a mundane equivalent pay grade in a mundane job.
Wouldn’t’ he assume some FReepers would know that?
If he’s lying then the whole vanity is kind of a farce.
Base pay for a 5-1 is $13.87 an hour.
Of course in the Indianapolis/Muncie/Carmel area, a 5-1 grosses $33,643 a year with the 16.23% locality adjustment.
Way above minimum wage.....around 13.60 per hour...based on a 40 HR work week
Take home pay! I'm only a Step 4. After deductions that's all I bring home.
GS-5 in 2018 without any locality starts at 28945 (step1) and tops out at 37630 (step 10). Even in 2017 rates unless a person is seasonal it’s not 25k.
As to gov employees. The ratio of idiots to workers is about 30/70 if you include people doing dumb but mandated jobs. Otherwise in normal/corporate world it’s 50/50. In corporate world it’s 20/80. Yes even in big corporate world 20% don’t do jack.
Pay/benefits can be argued till the cows come home. The old pension system is dead so no one since 1984 has those teacher union pensions in GSA world anymore. Thank goodness since it was outright generational theft.
So do I bitch about a gs-5 No. All the SES positions, yeah. Probably about 40% to many of them.
I’m a BSEE working in military efforts so I see all types of waste gov and contractors. I do my best and say screw the rest.