Comments on: Moving federal employees out of DC is a good thing (or, “why your intrepid heroine moved to the Midwest”) http://anitalife.com/moving-federal-employees-out-of-dc-is-a-good-thing-or-why-your-intrepid-heroine-moved-to-the-midwest/ Thu, 08 Feb 2024 20:56:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.34 By: mhj http://anitalife.com/moving-federal-employees-out-of-dc-is-a-good-thing-or-why-your-intrepid-heroine-moved-to-the-midwest/#comment-8090 Thu, 03 Oct 2019 18:41:58 +0000 http://anitalife.com/?p=1069#comment-8090 Wonderful post!!

It has been common knowledge for a long time that USG jobs in DC are about 20% overpaid, even allowing for high cost of living. It’s theh gravy train that never runs out of gravy.

fwiw, back in the 1990s the (inequitable) difference in grades and responsibilities between DC and the regional offices was already quite notorious, and it sounds like it has only gotten worse.

I also think that back then I was too hasty to criticize Robert Byrd for trying to get every federal office that wasn’t nailed own to relocate to West Virginia. Whatever his motives, better in WV than DC.

And as we are more and more conducting workflow electronically rather than physically, all the more so.

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