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Goverment does not pay as much as private sector, and pay is all based on years of experience, not talent.

• Jtsummers 3mo ago
  > pay is all based on years of experience, not talent. That's true for GS and WG positions (though they can get performance based bonus step increases, these are relatively rare unless you play golf with the boss), but the pay bands mostly try to get around that and give performance-based raises. Supervisors don't like getting taken to EEO so they often won't give low scores even to people who deserve them, though. This results in the top performers usually getting bigger raises than low performers, but low and middling performers end up with roughly equivalent raises. In theory, most of the pay band systems offer an effective way to weed out poor performers, but it's just not used.