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What "grade" would a senior dev be at? Pay scale for the DC area: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries-wages/salary-tables/25Tables/htm

• prepend 2y ago
  Senior devs are usually gs-15, step 10 which is about $195k in DC I don’t think it’s the money, I think it’s the mindset. There’s more project managers than actual hands on engineers.
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  • Den_VR 2y ago
    Where have you seen gs-15 senior devs? That oddball org that turned into DOGE? Seniors developers top out GS-13 without supervisory responsibilities.
    • giantg2 2y ago
      I've seen GS-12 and 13 advertised commonly. That's still good money and as much or more than I make.
    • prepend 1y ago
      Before DOGE it was USDS and they had lots of gs-15s. Especially back when they would just straight up match private sector salaries. In my org (10000+), over the past 5+ years we’ve hired maybe 20-30 15s and 14s who are non-supervisory engineers. It’s not a ton but it’s more historically. My point though is that people will take the jobs on government pay scale, but it’s organizationally very difficult to get the positions through HR.