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You found a government job that has a base pay of 45k and maxes out at 100k? That sounds like a wide margin for one position/classification. Do you need promotions to get to 100k?
In regards to op, figure out what your pension options are. Is there a minimum retirement age? Would you retire with full benefits? Plan it out to where you can retire with a pension and benefits but still gives you time to hit the private industry. Just a thought.
Depends on where OP lives. I can tell you in Ontario, Canada some government jobs are like this. Teachers start out 50-60k a year and in less than 10 years are just under 100k, but basically plateau there. Nurses are very similar.
My buddy is a cop. He wen't thru the cadet program in my city, which is a 3 year program. He was basically doing the work nobody else wanted to do, a lot of paperwork, transporting court documents and occasionally prisoners/evidence to/from court for trials. The cadets aren't armed, it's basically a step above an un-sworn civilian working in a police dept.
The cadet program paid like 36 or 37k a year. Once you graduate that you become a patrol officer, which bumped him to like 55k. After 4 years on patrol they are making something around 80k, even without increasing in rank. Supervisors are making close to 100k.
Ontario has what's called the "sunshine list". A list of all government / public sector employees in the province every year who earn more than 100k/year are published, along with who they work for / job title. It's supposed to give transparency to how taxpayer dollars are being spent on public sector wages/jobs. Over 200 firefighters in my city earned over 100k, which is over 66% of the force. Over 20% of police earned more than 100k.
It's crazy, because as far as I'm aware, police / firefighters in the US don't make that kind of money. Our soldiers serving make about 50k a year, while some policeman driving around in a relatively peaceful country is making double that.