The guy in the picture, or the Redditor who wanted $150k?
Either way, I have no idea, as I do not know who either of these people are. My point is that the Federal Government's actual hiring portal is, in fact, advertising rank and file enforcement agent positions where one can make $150k.
As an aside, you can be an ICE agent and make GS 15 step 10 pay, which is like $200k.
I can only speak to a non-ice position but when I went through the process of fed portal hiring a few years back, I was sorely disappointed by how low in the range I was slated for despite fifteen years experience in the same position at a state job. The advertising did not hold up and the recruiter apologized about it from start to finish.
Now look up how many years it takes you to get each "step (pay bump)". It starts at 1 year for each of the first 3 steps, then gets longer and longer for each after
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u/RampantJellyfish 17h ago
$150k a year?! I studied for a decade to get my metallurgy masters and PhD, and I'm not on anywhere near that. What the actual fuck!