Another place to cut government compensation cost

[Lisa558]

While we certainly can reduce the government headcount by at least 20% by getting them back to the office and working full days, let’s not forget how much money we taxpayers are paying for contractors.

The maximum compensation cost for a contractor is…..get ready for it….$646,000 a year! Many of these contractors are government retirees who set up a contracting firm for their sole client - the government department where they worked - and then continue to do their previous job, taking in a 6-figure pension plus billing $400 an hour.

I know someone who retired from the government, is collecting $100,000 plus in pension, and earning another $400,000 on his contract.

OFPP Updates Contractor Compensation Cap for 2024 | Forvis Mazars US

Learn how the OFPP updates affect contractors and how Forvis Mazars can help your organization prepare the allowability and allocation of employee compensation costs.

www.forvismazars.us

 

[Moonglow]

You sound jealous.

 

[1srelluc]

After the wife retired, they (FEMA) tried bringing her back on as a contractor doing the same job.....The pay would have been around a low-grade GS-14.

I guess those five layers of supervision above her could not get the job done.....She turned them down.

 

[Greenbeard]

Cutting headcount means contracting out more work. Pick a lane.

 

[1srelluc]

Cutting headcount means contracting out more work. Pick a lane.

.gov contractor hiring can be frozen too you know.

 

[jackflash]

While we certainly can reduce the government headcount by at least 20% by getting them back to the office and working full days, let’s not forget how much money we taxpayers are paying for contractors.

The maximum compensation cost for a contractor is…..get ready for it….$646,000 a year! Many of these contractors are government retirees who set up a contracting firm for their sole client - the government department where they worked - and then continue to do their previous job, taking in a 6-figure pension plus billing $400 an hour.

I know someone who retired from the government, is collecting $100,000 plus in pension, and earning another $400,000 on his contract.

OFPP Updates Contractor Compensation Cap for 2024 | Forvis Mazars US

Learn how the OFPP updates affect contractors and how Forvis Mazars can help your organization prepare the allowability and allocation of employee compensation costs.

www.forvismazars.us

We once had Marshall Dillon & Festus as the enforcers of quality g'ment in a city named DODGE. At current we have Marshall Musk & Ramaswamy as the enforcers of quality g'ment in a dept. called DOGE! History repeats itself again!!!

 

[1srelluc]

We once had Marshall Dillon & Festus as the enforcers of quality g'ment in a city named DODGE. At current we have Marshall Musk & Ramaswamy as the enforcers of quality g'ment in a dept. called DOGE!!!

Throw in a bit of Tombstone with Homan.

 

[Crepitus]

You sound jealous.

I am, that's for sure.

 

[Care4all]

We once had Marshall Dillon & Festus as the enforcers of quality g'ment in a city named DODGE. At current we have Marshall Musk & Ramaswamy as the enforcers of quality g'ment in a dept. called DOGE! History repeats itself again!!!

Were Festus and Dillon private citizen billionaires?

 

[rightwinger]

After the wife retired, they (FEMA) tried bringing her back on as a contractor doing the same job.....The pay would have been around a low-grade GS-14.

I guess those five layers of supervision above her could not get the job done.....She turned them down.

Double dipping after retirement was the best part of working for the Government.
I retired at 55 at 65 percent pay and then was rehired to my old job at the salary I had left.

 

[rightwinger]

.gov contractor hiring can be frozen too you know.

Can be, but then needed tasks don’t get done

 

[The Duke]

After the wife retired, they (FEMA) tried bringing her back on as a contractor doing the same job.....The pay would have been around a low-grade GS-14.

I guess those five layers of supervision above her could not get the job done.....She turned them down.

The problem is those 5 layers of administrators.

Musk and Ramaswamy fix it.

I think they're going to walk in carrying sinks.

 

[Care4all]

The problem is those 5 layers of administrators.

Musk and Ramaswamy fix it.

I think they're going to walk in carrying sinks.

Will they convince Congress to act?

 

[Lisa558]

Cutting headcount means contracting out more work. Pick a lane.

Nope. Cutting headcount is the result of requiring the government employees working part-time hours to work full-time.

 

[Lisa558]

You sound jealous.

And libtard makes it personal - rather than address the INSANE policies of paying contractors as much as $646,000 when the government is operating at a deficit.

 

[1srelluc]

The problem is those 5 layers of administrators.

Musk and Ramaswamy fix it.

I think they're going to walk in carrying sinks.

LOL....A co-worker of my wife (since retired herself) said they were in total disarray and tried pawning off the wife's work onto them.

They just ignored them. The "supervision" was supposed to step-in and backfill when needed but none of them knew how to do the wife's job because they were GS-13 "problem children" being warehoused in the finance dept. of FEMA.

I suspect you could eliminate at least half of the GS-13s and above and not miss a lick as far as ".gov efficiency" goes.

 

[Lisa558]

After the wife retired, they (FEMA) tried bringing her back on as a contractor doing the same job.....The pay would have been around a low-grade GS-14.

I guess those five layers of supervision above her could not get the job done.....She turned them down.

Similar situation. Someone I know got a government job, and she Immediately turned around asking if she could contract the work out to me. (We were in the same field.) I turned it down, but I do know that she works half-days at home doing errands and whatnot.

Looks like people like her will now have to go into the office and work instead of goofing off half the day and paying a contractor hundreds of dollars an hour to do the job.

 

[JohnDB]

While we certainly can reduce the government headcount by at least 20% by getting them back to the office and working full days, let’s not forget how much money we taxpayers are paying for contractors.

The maximum compensation cost for a contractor is…..get ready for it….$646,000 a year! Many of these contractors are government retirees who set up a contracting firm for their sole client - the government department where they worked - and then continue to do their previous job, taking in a 6-figure pension plus billing $400 an hour.

I know someone who retired from the government, is collecting $100,000 plus in pension, and earning another $400,000 on his contract.

OFPP Updates Contractor Compensation Cap for 2024 | Forvis Mazars US

Learn how the OFPP updates affect contractors and how Forvis Mazars can help your organization prepare the allowability and allocation of employee compensation costs.

www.forvismazars.us

Because of the procurement process....contractors are easier to do needed jobs than hiring and adding staff.

However, as much as I hate to say it.....

AI can do 90% of what we have both employees and contractors do in the Federal Government. Just a matter of setting up the systems to do the work.

 

[Lisa558]

Let’s do the math:

Option 1: Pay government employee $150,000 and have her work a full day to do the job.

Option 2: Pay government employee $150,000 and let her work three hours a day from home, and then pay a contractor $300 an hour for the remaining 5 hours.

Now multiply by 200,000+ employees dong the same, and you’re talking real money.

 

[Lisa558]

Because of the procurement process....contractors are easier to do needed jobs than hiring and adding staff.

Easier? Is the object of the administrative staff to make things as easy on themselves as possible, even though it means tripling the cost?

However, as much as I hate to say it.....

AI can do 90% of what we have both employees and contractors do in the Federal Government. Just a matter of setting up the systems to do the work.

That’s because so much of it is mindless routine and paperwork.