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Armed forces pay is way, way less than the competitive pay paid to the same people to perform the same job as employees of private companies.
by gorbachev 6y ago
Armed forces pay is way, way less than the competitive pay paid to the same people to perform the same job as employees of private companies.
- refurb 6y agoThat's true of government jobs in general. But what about total compensation, including all benefits? You can't find a private job with a pension plan any more.
- jquery 6y agoA pension plan isn’t magic, it is just a fixed-income security. You can buy them on the private market. A pension can thus be converted to a dollar value and compared to a private sector job. Total compensation is decent in the military, but imo it’s definitely not work the risks to life and limb if deployed. Any good soldier could probably make a lot more in the private sector for the same amount of work hours and stress. I don’t know that this is true for all government jobs... I know that California and especially San Francisco have (or had) lavish compensation programs.