Looking it up (they're very public figures), the high end of that scale is 96k; the low end 52. (G11 base is $52,329.00, G13 base is $74,584.00) These numbers

Looking it up (they're very public figures), the high end of that scale is 96k; the low end 52. (G11 base is $52,329.00, G13 base is $74,584.00) These numbers seem incredibly low. Like, "why doesn't Google just hire them all away and put them in a box somewhere" numbers. The economic damage done by repeated spying allegations and the vulnerabilities the NSA has stockpiled (and then leaked) seems like it's far outweighed the cost even to individual companies to just filibuster the whole thing. Then again, I'm not going to dig into the pathology of people who'd accept government jobs in the first place. [1] https://www.federalpay.org/gs/2017/GS-13 https://www.federalpay.org/gs/2017/GS-13