Comment Cheap Salaries yields cheap talent (Score 3, Interesting) 327
They earn at the top of federal pay scale, with the highest taking home $148,000 a year.
That's not even the salary of a manager at Google (and don't even talk about benefits -- free food is amazing) -- and this is the highest of salaries. For a lawyer (law school is will run you over $100K by itself). Can you imagine why they may not have the best and brightest? With the new patent office opening in San Jose, why would anyone actually want to work for the USPO who has any amount of talent?