westernrvparkowner wrote:
DiskDoctr wrote:
BLM doesn't have enough money for boots on the ground because it is siphoned off for other uses.
There are some in BLM making in excess of $180k. That one person equals THREE boots on the ground. Avg pay in 2015 was under $65k, so that is almost TRIPLE the average.
Source: BLM Top 100 Salaries 2015
It's a simple algorithm that shows you cut off the high end to pay for more of the average boots on the ground. Start at the top, cut all salaries more than 40 over means by 50, then hold salary cap of 20 over avg pay until the dept has the manpower it needs within its funding level.
Stop to Fraud, Waste, and Abuse in all depts. Fewer "high paid watchers" and more boots on the ground "do-ers"
As long as the budget-increase-teat is available, we won't have an efficient and effective dept and management.
Simple math, really- once you step outside the "this is how it's always been done" box.
How about we cut your pay by 40 percent so we can hire more lower paid workers in whatever the heck industry you work in? If you think that BLM lands are mismanaged now, see what you would get if you restricted the top management's pay to much less than they could make elsehwere. You would get exactly what you paid for, people who were not competent enough to get a position in an area that pays the going rate of pay. I am always amazed that people who have no information what so ever as to what people do can immediately declare they are overpaid and their position is a waste of money.
Actually, it's your response that shows a lack of understanding how gov't contracts, funding, and positions work. How far down that top-down list do you think they'll have to go before the organization "finds a way" to solve budgeting issues?
Self-preservation is a strong instinct.
Besides BLM is PUBLIC SERVICE and subject to each and every budget session and whim...by law. Every contract for services is required to have budget-related wording allowing them to suspend or terminate a contract by law. It's called the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR).
It's amazing the assumptions some people make about the knowledge and experience of people they don't know and often underestimate- even when those people are formally trained in the subject area :roll:
The strategy is quite simply the balancing of the Peter Principle. Start at the top, get rid of the dead weight who are not effective enough, and work down until you find someone who is capable of MORE than their position and let them rise to the top via solutions and effectiveness.
Some reading:
Peter Principle
