Most of the top engineers would probably be contractors. The government pay scale pretty much forces you to become a manager if you want to move past GS-12. Including locality pay, GS-12 salary tops at a little over 100k a year[1].
I just looked at their website, and they don't mention anything about NSA, Amazon, or Google on the landing page, so I think it's just techcrunch adding it in as clickbait, even though the founders aren't going out of their way to advertise it.
I just looked at their website, and they don't mention anything about NSA, Amazon, or Google on the landing page, so I think it's just techcrunch adding it in as clickbait, even though the founders aren't going out of their way to advertise it.
https://www.federalpay.org/gs/2020