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According to the article linked, Trump wants the new CEO to make less than $500k/year. Yet, according to this article from 2019, the CFO, COO, general council & chief nuclear officer are all making well over that. Who the hell is going to take the CEO job? https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2019/nov/15/...

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Are you kidding? Most people make $50k not $500k. Lots of existing CEO's don't even make $500k.

They mean what qualified person is going to take that job. If you're qualified to run a company that size, you can make much more than $500k.

It is likely they will hire people who will only use the jobs as a stepping stone to private industry. They will take the low pay of government to prove their abilities, then jump to the private sector.

So long as it doesn’t become a revolving door project with workers influenced by private companies by promises of future employment, then I think the whole practice is fine.

>They will take the low pay of government to prove their abilities, then jump to the private sector.

So the job of running a $10 billion dollar per year company that manages nuclear power plants, hydroelectric dams, and supplies power to millions of people is done by someone who hasn't yet proven they likely have the capability to do so?

This isn't a summer internship at the State Department.

TWA has >8000 employees on LinkedIn & >$10B in revenue, getting a CEO who isn't making at a salary in the top 1% of US workers seems like a stretch.

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