I've got a tough one on a job opportunity

The tuition benefit is really only worth it if the school is good and your kid wants to attend it right? I imagine it's worthless if either of those isn't true, leaving off getting admitted.

A lot of universities have exchange programs for tuition reimbursement. Some thing to check into.

Gaucho, remember that time that Congress passed Obamacare for all citizens, then voted to exclude themselves from the requirements? Good times

State agencies notoriously have lower expectations for the pay. So if you get more pay and don’t have to move as fast that is nice.

Don’t be a contractor though. Make them convert you to a full state employee.

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Director Level
State Agency
$30k raise

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Possible Advancement

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If you take this, make sure that starting pay is at the low end of your TS level (for example, TS316 is for an IT Director 1 and the salary ranges between $62,899 and $110,219). The range within a TS level is divided into quartiles. In the years with pay increases it goes 4% for the lowest quartile, 3% for the next, 2% for the 2nd highest and then to 1% for the highest end of the quartile.

So ideally you want to your pay to be in the lower end of your title's TS level range and your title to be as low in the group (Director 1 vs Director 2, for example) then get into a CPG (career progression group) to move you up the levels (from Director 1 to Director 2, for example). This becomes handy on years where there are no pay increases, especially as the increases for going up to a new TS level can be significant jumps (TS levels don't move at a 1:1 with a cpg).

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Public Retirement Pension but 457 Eligible

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You might want to ask about eligibility if you already have a 401k (which it sounds like you do). I honestly have no idea about how that works but since I have my own self-managed 401k, if I were looking at Deferred Compensation I would make sure I was eligible).

Also, remember that since the state (assuming Louisiana) does not pay into Social Security so while your check will be bigger, you'll be subject to the windfall elimination when you retire (even if you already have all your quarters paid into SS).

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Do y’all think it’s kinda messed up that if you work for a beer company you gotta drink that brand but if you’re a government employee you can send your kids to private school? Like it’s your fault if you’re part of the government maybe if you had some skin in the game you’d try to fix it

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Come on, man, that's for "everyone else". I would likely stay private because I wouldn't be able to handle the inefficiency and incompetence of a state agency.

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Gaucho, remember that time that Congress passed Obamacare for all citizens, then voted to exclude themselves from the requirements? Good times

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Millenials are the most oppressed minority

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State Agency

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You lost me.

I vote stay put
The state Agency thing turned me off

Have been on both sides and prefer the private rather than the State