Contrast this with Australia, where the equivalent body (the Australian Public Service Commission) has for many years actively fought against specialist pay bands for tech workers, despite numerous independent reviews over many years pointing out that this is a problem.
The result of this is that government is full of security practitioners (and other IT professionals) on contracts earning $180+ an hour, with labour hire firms fleecing the taxpayer for exorbitant fees on top of that.
Some security agencies (namely AFP and ASIO) pay reasonably well by government standards because they have their own rules, but the rest of government is bound by the backwards thinkers at the APSC.
My first job at age 20 was in IT for the government. The grade I was given they said would, elsewhere, mean I was responsible for a whole building full of people.
Contrast this with Australia, where the equivalent body (the Australian Public Service Commission) has for many years actively fought against specialist pay bands for tech workers, despite numerous independent reviews over many years pointing out that this is a problem.
https://www.themandarin.com.au/223650-tech-skills-recognitio...
The result of this is that government is full of security practitioners (and other IT professionals) on contracts earning $180+ an hour, with labour hire firms fleecing the taxpayer for exorbitant fees on top of that.
Some security agencies (namely AFP and ASIO) pay reasonably well by government standards because they have their own rules, but the rest of government is bound by the backwards thinkers at the APSC.
My first job at age 20 was in IT for the government. The grade I was given they said would, elsewhere, mean I was responsible for a whole building full of people.