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This would effectively double the cost to DoD of any awarded cloud service contract to Amazon. In the form of higher cost of living for federal employees.
by itronitron 8y ago
This would effectively double the cost to DoD of any awarded cloud service contract to Amazon. In the form of higher cost of living for federal employees.
- bobthepanda 8y agoDC hardly needs any help to give federal employees higher COL, it's already more expensive than Seattle, and is about as expensive as Brooklyn, NYC: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/region_rankings.jsp?title=2018®ion=019 https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/region_rankings.jsp?ti...
- mikeash 8y agoLooks like that’s not counting the whole metro area, so it’s kind of misleading. DC is a fairly small chunk of the region as a whole. It’s only the third most populous jurisdiction in the area.
- MrMorden 8y agoThe current locality rate for the DC-ish area (which actually goes halfway to Wilmington and Richmond) is 28.22%; thus, a GS-12-05 salary is $72k in a low-cost-of-living area and $92k in DC. The Federal Salary Council's recommended locality rate is 78.81%, bringing that notional GS-12 to $128k. So there is already somewhat of a disconnect between federal salaries and cost of living. That aside, it's easy enough for the government to fix the housing problem. They're just too invested in keeping prices high to want that.
- arh68 8y agoYou might want to be aware of the Rest-of-US locality rate, which is around 14~15%. A base pay of 72k would be ~82k w/ locality (Rest of US) vs ~92k (DC).