This is just another fine example of the Heritage Foundation not knowing what they are talking about and only cherry picking the facts. Just another egghead think tank bunching all Federal Salaries into a common bucket, and calculating an average to make the results support their cause. When I started working for the DoD 24yrs ago, scientists and engineers had a separate GS pay scale. During the Clinton administration that changed and all the “non- technical” personnel were raised up to the scientist/engineer scale. At the time that was approx. a $6K/yr raise. Yesterday the DoD sent out a letter saying that this engineers week and we should honor the accomplishments of our engineers. There are approx. 100,000 engineers/scientists out of the total 800,000 DoD employee base. So in short do an actual comparison of salaries especially in the technical areas. Oh and the reason I don’t go to the outside world is, the contractors who work for DoD do not have the country’s best interest in heart only their company’s’ profit margin !!!
Under this so called pay freeze do you still get step increases?
Under this so called pay freeze do you still get step increases?
Actually, the Heritage Foundation, did take into consideration many of the factors you mentioned. The Foundation did not recommend reducing the salaries of skilled workers such as engineers but did recommend reducing the salaries of non-skilled workers. The Foundation also found that the wages of skilled workers were in-line with those in the private sector.
Oh and the reason I don’t go to the outside world is, the contractors who work for DoD do not have the country’s best interest in heart only their company’s’ profit margin !!!
I resent that remark. I was the lead designer (DoD contractor)on two of the six enabling technologies for the X-30 national aerospace plane and have nearly two dozen aircraft types with designs on them. I can’t count the number of government engineers that took the road to glory riding on my back. If you ever see Americans streaking across the sky like a meteor it will be because of us.