When someone asks a question, why not just answer it instead of questioning the person and making them feel stupid about not knowing something?
At any rate, the U.S. government imposes many standards on federal government contractors including minimum wage standards, hiring practices, paid sick leave, a host of responsibilities that any contractor that wishes to do business with the federal government MUST adhere to. For example, in the area of construction all federal contractors must pay employees at a minimum, the prevailing wage including benefits for the locality of the construction site. It's not unreasonable to think and to ask what are the requirements and responsibilities that IT professionals working as federal contractors might also have. There are a ton of other requirements and conditions that you can read more about some of those requirements here:
Sometimes a little prodding can lead to more learning. Your answer on the other hand is so coddling that it could lead someone who's not paying attention to believing that the government pay scale actually does apply to contractors.
Everything I know about contractors and government work comes from Edward Snowden’s memoir where he was paid like garbage ($120k as a senior IIRC) to work as a contractor for the NSA. That’s why I thought it might matter. I’m sorry you don’t like my question
While I admire Snowden, I suspect his “senior role” was more like a Big4 consulting “senior” than a distinguished engineer at Microsoft or Amazon. It’s entirely possible he’d never have made it past a phone screen for a FAANG role.
I’m not sure $120k (in 2013) counts as “paid like garbage” for his role. What were SREs getting paid at Google back then? I get the feeling that was a reasonably close match for the role he had?
