Jobs related to government contracts are some of the few in the private sector that offer more than the civil service. Their employers, like the civil services, are able to outbid private employers. Not unfailingly true: the inventive industries are expanding enough that only the second-rate in such fields work for the government. One can be pretty sure it was second-raters who were doing the inspection down on the oil rig that blew up.
“Jobs related to government contracts are some of the few in the private sector that offer more than the civil service. Their employers, like the civil services, are able to outbid private employers.”
Many of these jobs are subject to the “51% of workers must be certain ethnic minorities or women” as well; the taxpayers tha fund the projects are often prevented from working on them by their skin color and gender. To compensate for the tokens, a job that requires 50 men simply hires 49 white men and 51 “others” in order to get the work done; what a bargain!