 there are risks and rewards of climbing the ladder in any job. Theoretically, if you take on riskier and bigger jobs or harder to do jobs, you would expect to get paid more. In the federal government, that equation doesn't work. The equation that we play here is you are a public service motivated person. You care about this so much that you're basically a sucker. You're going to keep coming to work no matter what, even if we don't give you a raise. That is the situation that affects