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by wan23 478 days ago
The salary cap for most federal employees is $195,200 - that's the max for any level of experience. Big law firms are paying 225,000 for new grads and it goes up quickly from there. The median software engineer salary in the bay area is 260K. There are a lot of careers where a smart and motivated person could instantly be doing better switching from public to private.
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I don't think SF tech pay is a sane benchmark. Presumably those government employees live somewhere more affordable for a start.