Do the benefits of a government job outweigh the lower pay?

Answer 1

Consider these things:

1 job security
2 mandated holidays
3 health/dental/vision plans
4 vacation
5 retirement plans
6 ability to move to different divisions and states (room for promotion)
7 minimum guaranteed cost of living pay raises

Is it worth it? yah.

Answer 2

Only Jcurrelli below has a clue. The rest of these whack jobs don't know anything.

Government jobs are usually relatively secure. But many, many jobs at the state and local level are funded by federal grants or initiatives. Get a new president, things change and they no longer fund your project. In Alaska the feds stopped funding an Act from the 1930's. 4,000 people were laid off. More secure but not guaranteed.

You can't transfer from department to department and certainly not from state to state. As a state employee you may have some hiring preference in a different department but that is it.

Most state employees are covered by a collective bargaining unit. Contracts change. My wife's retirement benefits are far superior to mine because she first started to work for the state before I did. The benefits changed after I came in. Now the benefits are completely different again.

Health care plans vary widely. In Anchorage the health plans are completely different depending on if you work for the city, the county, the state, the University, the railroad, the police department or as a teacher. And they are all state employees.

Government benefits are usually pretty good comparatively. But do you home work. Many gov jobs are dead end some have great potential. Don't believe any wide sweeping generalizations.

Answer 3

County employee here.....

Benefits are expensive if you ask me. I cannot afford nearly 200 bucks taken out of every check. The one thing I love is the employee assistance program, you can get free counseling for your family when there is a crisis or just if you are feeling down. I have to say though, I am leaving the government, Friday is my last day.

If you want a career that you are happy in, a career that you can advance based on your hard work and efforts....do not look at the government.

I have been on a supervisor waiting list for 2 years...I have a bachelors degree....meet all the requirements.....and am STILL waiting....nothing is based on effort. Everything with the government is based solely on exam scores and then you will literally die waiting to be picked off the list of 434 other candidates waiting to be picked.......

Answer 4

Low salaries, no longer something lots to be achieved, super politics, no possibilities to strengthen and progression, corrupt and disgusting environment all around, mediocre & uninteresting colleagues, excessively uninteresting and uninteresting recurring, basically about all those are the hall marks of a givernment interest in India. whilst you're finding for a secure, sound, and an enduring interest the place you dont must be punctual, you dont ought to attend common, you may take as lots of bypass away as achieveable, savour many of the trip journeys, the optimal everywhere interior the international, a lot of possibilities to make money with the help of unlawful potential....then there is not any longer something like it. Make your selection!

Answer 5

Absolutely. Their benefit package is usually equivalent to a job with higher pay. There is also the job security, and who else has all the money but our government. Someone should be able to benefit from it that is a US citizen.

Answer 6

Depends on your plans.

Sometimes yes, sometimes no.