Federal employees have far better salaries, health care and pensions than the average American. They don’t need “tenure” too.
I’m retired CIA. My wages, given the hours I worked, sucked. I could have earned at least triple outside. Retirement is PERS - which is just a pretty standard 401k. So not any different than ‘average’. Given my wage disparity - much worse than average for me.
A few Agency employees qualify for a special retirement benefit which amounts to around a whopping $1500 a month and only lasts 15 years or so. Not much and we bloody earn it.
I don’t think pay or benefits are really out of line - especially for case officers, FBI special agents etc. who work stupid amounts of hours mostly for free.
But ‘tenure’ has got to do.