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re: Private Sector vs state employment
Posted on 4/16/24 at 7:08 am to shellbeachspeckzzz
Posted on 4/16/24 at 7:08 am to shellbeachspeckzzz
State work: low pay ceiling, shitty bureaucracy, but stable pay, Cadillac health insurance and good retirement.
Private: pay ceiling higher but you only eat what you kill, health care is astronomical if paying on your own, stability fluctuates. If your disciplined retirement can be fine.
State work is a lot of riding out shitty pay to get to 30 years.
Private is hustle and anxiety to get bigger payoffs
Private: pay ceiling higher but you only eat what you kill, health care is astronomical if paying on your own, stability fluctuates. If your disciplined retirement can be fine.
State work is a lot of riding out shitty pay to get to 30 years.
Private is hustle and anxiety to get bigger payoffs
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Posted on 4/16/24 at 7:25 am to Piebald Panther
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State work: low pay ceiling, shitty bureaucracy, but stable pay, Cadillac health insurance and good retirement.
Private: pay ceiling higher but you only eat what you kill, health care is astronomical if paying on your own, stability fluctuates. If your disciplined retirement can be fine.
State work is a lot of riding out shitty pay to get to 30 years.
Private is hustle and anxiety to get bigger payoffs
Agree with most of this. Health care isn’t as good since Jindal raided the OGB reserves. It’s more like the Toyota Camry of health insurance.
Posted on 4/16/24 at 7:48 am to Piebald Panther
It depends what career you’re in.. obviously the state pay is not great for lower level maintenance and labor jobs.
For engineering, yes you make less than consulting firms but after the new SER rates took place in 2019, the pay scale shifted by at least 15k for entry level positions, and at that point I was only making 10k more in private, at mid-small size civil engineering firm. Barely noticeable after taxes..
Came back to the state and have gotten a 3-4% raise each summer with JBE in office… Don’t know that it’ll continue with Landry.
But that put me right around what I was making in consulting, maybe a little less. Still six figures and +/- a couple grand.
Way more stability, less stress, and better benefits, plenty time off. I just depends what you value.
In civil, there’s plenty of jobs in transportation to go around at the state level. I could see why some civils would work for a large firm or oil company if you have a structural background, but working at a small transportation firm vs the state doesn’t make sense to me unless you just want to say you work for a consultant.
For engineering, yes you make less than consulting firms but after the new SER rates took place in 2019, the pay scale shifted by at least 15k for entry level positions, and at that point I was only making 10k more in private, at mid-small size civil engineering firm. Barely noticeable after taxes..
Came back to the state and have gotten a 3-4% raise each summer with JBE in office… Don’t know that it’ll continue with Landry.
But that put me right around what I was making in consulting, maybe a little less. Still six figures and +/- a couple grand.
Way more stability, less stress, and better benefits, plenty time off. I just depends what you value.
In civil, there’s plenty of jobs in transportation to go around at the state level. I could see why some civils would work for a large firm or oil company if you have a structural background, but working at a small transportation firm vs the state doesn’t make sense to me unless you just want to say you work for a consultant.
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