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by vlan0 1099 days ago
State government is tricky. Pay sucks and doesn’t attract a lot of talent. Same with the education sector.
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Government IT is outsourced at prices that could pay top salaries (think Palantir). They just don't.
> Government IT is outsourced at prices that could pay top salaries

Mostly, its not; a lot is not outsourced, and a lot that is is outsourced on personal services contracts at rates that even if there was no vendor overhead wouldn’t pay for a top-flight pay and benefits package.