If government workers had meaningful, measureable, and scruitinized work requirements and expectations, then they are likely getting paid well and correctly. The question comes when they’re not and, as importantly, why are similar non-government jobs not paying as well?
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The question comes when they’re not and, as importantly, why are similar non-government jobs not paying as well?
They are not paying as well because in the real world if you go down to your basement and print up a pile of cash, you will go to prison.
The government does not have that restriction.
It is not their money, what do they care?
I guess it depends on the positions. In the Federal government positions like engineers, contracting officers, logisticians, attorneys etc. tend to make quite a bit less than their private sector counterparts. What they lose in pay they make up in long term job security which if you have a family, is sometimes more important than the paycheck itself.