Originally Posted by channa
Government pay is all out of whack. Check out these locality pay tables:
http://www.opm.gov/oca/05tables/pdf/saltbl.pdf
The base GS salaries in Houston are more than they are in New York or Los Angeles. Why do I think W had something to do with that?
Actually, they base it off of the types of federal employees, and number of - so if an area has a large presence of well paid federal employees, the entire region gets bumped up - ergo, NASA...
My memory is fuzzy, so I'll try to be more precise, but there's a strange metric involved...