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Terence Eden
@edent.tel

I doubled my salary by leaving the Civil Service. I don't claim to have been a lynchpin or a massive talent, but I was one of a number of people who couldn't afford to stay. Technical ability & strategic thinking is undervalued compared to managerial & budgetary skills.

Andrew Sissons@acjsissons.bsky.social

And the pay erosion meant a lot of the best civil servants - particularly after 2016 when relative pay had really fallen and things got a bit chaotic - just decided enough was enough and hopped off to the private sector.

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Tommy Palmer
@tommyp.org

My 2 years at GDS were some of the best of my career so far. The _only_ reason I left is that I was seeing salary ranges nearly 1/3 higher than what I was on. I might've stayed a lot longer if there was a path to being compensated like the private sector.