[jgeada]

Direct pay may be so-so, but indirect pay is stellar. Look at how most everyone in Congress & Senate become significantly richer during their tenure, how frequently bureaucrats get hired as high level management in the industries they were overseeing, etc

[Tarq0n]

This is really not a thing for your average civil servant, only for department leaders in highly visible agencies.

[TheCoelacanth]

Those are elected officials, not bureaucrats. Bureaucrats are the people in non-political jobs who don't get replaced after elections.