 Seriously, almost all the government positions pay more in the private sector. Without question. I did find one that was the exception. You know who the highest paid government employee in history was? Uh-uh. Anthony Fauci. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. $810,000. Really? Was that through grants or was that the actual budgetary line item? Stinkin' pay. That's more than the president. And you know what? When he retired, we idiots gave him civil service at a high percentage of that salary.