re: Questions about federal government pay

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Either (a) they like a no stress, stable job ... or (b) perhaps they don't think they could hack it.

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I think that's a pretty ridiculous dichotomy.

What about federal benefits, which are particularly good (especially their retirement plans)? What about possible promotion potential? What about early retirement (which plenty of people do only to come out of retirement and work for the private sector). What if they just really like where they work - as in the location itself as well as their coworkers? What if some of them actually want to serve their government and find it personally fulfilling?

There are plenty of good reasons to keep a federal job. You can't just simply assume that that federal employees are either too weak or too incompetent to take a private sector job.