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I did an interview with these folks about a year and a half ago—if you can make the pay and location work it seems like a great way to do socially meaningful wo
by d4mi3n 4y ago
I did an interview with these folks about a year and a half ago—if you can make the pay and location work it seems like a great way to do socially meaningful work.
I sadly had to pass—I couldn’t make the salary or move work with health issues in the family—but the interview process was very open and the interviewers I spoke with were fantastic.
As I gathered these folks are effectively a floating software team that partners with other governmental organizations to fix problems that benefit from their skill sets. The last project I’m aware of was them revamping systems to allow veterans to more easily receive health care.
Good luck to them and whoever applies, we need more places like the USDS.
- YPCrumble 4y agoWhat salary did they offer?
- aosmith 4y agoGS pay scale is capped at ~$150k.
- 8organicbits 4y agoI believe the current number is $183,500. https://www.federalpay.org/gs/locality/washington-dc https://www.federalpay.org/gs/locality/washington-dc Although if that's still too low, check out DHS. They are finding ways of increasing salaries above that limit. (https://www.usajobs.gov/job/709656500 https://www.usajobs.gov/job/709656500) Senior Cybersecurity Specialist: $115,400 - $123,700 Staff Cybersecurity Specialist: $140,400 - $150.200 Principal Cybersecurity Specialist: $167,400 - $177,800 Senior Principal Cybersecurity Specialist: $184,700 - $196,000 In some geographic areas, average starting salaries will be higher because of a local cybersecurity labor market supplement (e.g., metro Washington, D.C. +10%). If I'm parsing that correctly, $196k+10%=$215k as the cap.
- d4mi3n 4y agoThe GS schedule capped out below what I was making at the time. Other commenters here have pointed out what the dollar value is, but I forget the designation for the salary band.