LLNS may have excluded the wrong people in last VSSOP? The exclusions were based on outdated job categories and related skills. ULM are now thinking that in the future, job categories and functional areas will have to be re-defined. The next VSSOP/ISP will be based on the new categories and functional areas. The questions I have are: 1) Why didnt they think of that before the transition. It seems like their style is “change things as you go”. Planning is out the window! 2) Who will give input on the new changes? The next RIF apparently is going to be more lucrative than the VSSOP. Depending on the length of employment, a RIFed person, not only gets their 1 week pay per year of service but also from 30 to 120 days notice, essentially 30 to 120 days pay. Please feel free to comment on the rumors or add new ones you actually heard.
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Top 5 Officer Compensations 441891.00, 663517.00, 264233.00, 332410.00, 867356.00
Top 5 Officers George H. Miller, President and CEO, Linda M. Rachow, CFO and Treasurer, Jeffery A. Blair, Secretary, Stephen A. Johnson, Contract Assurance Officer, Steven D. Liedle, Vice President
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"The site is interesting. You can look up the highest compensation for the various labs..."
SNL 926700.00
NTS 874953.80
LLNL 867356.00
LANL 800348.00
ORNL 596241.00
SRNL 570008.00
BNL 497580.00
INL 498775.00
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These figures include *all* salary sources being received by each lab director.
Now you know why the "for-profit" lab executives want to keep their jobs so badly. Lab executive salaries have exploded upward since the "for-profit" LLCs took over the NNSA research labs! This is disgusting stuff.
It's also interesting to note that the top 4 highest salaries listed are all associated with the NNSA labs. Heckavajob, Tom D'Agostino, you jerk.
Yes, I am an inside manager who regrets the contract change and the influx of expensive managers who add nothing of value to our Lab.
Although he is doing well financially, I know that GM is agonizing over what this Lab has become. I used to work with him when times were different.
These clowns make all the money and do nothing. Since the LLNS take over LLNL been going down hill fast and I don't see where it's going to get any better
http://www.recovery.gov/Transparency/Pages/RecipientProjectSummary.
aspx?AwardIDSUR=40297&PopId=82288
"NNSA contacted POGO to say that it reimbursed the lab directors at far less than the $684,181 [DOE contract mandated] cap, and provided these figures for the amounts that the Department of Energy contributes to certain lab directors salaries (with the rest coming from the private companies that share in the management of the labs): LANL's Michael Anastasio, $397,341; Lawrence Livermore National Lab's George Miller, $348,400; and Sandia's Tom Hunter, $366,119."
http://pogoblog.typepad.com
/pogo/2009/11/lifestyles-of-the-
rich-and-nuclear.html
The problem is not the salaries these people make! its the level of middle managers and lower level managers that staff the different directorates and institutes to meet a declining mission space. Adding to this are the programs and rules they have implemented to meet DOE requirements and minimize risk. So...less WFO and more staff. That is why the these specific National labs are dying, while the others are doing fine.
Technically correct....but they would still be cheaper! If you're going to get crap at least try not to pay top dollar for it.
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Could you image having senior managers like the clowns at LSO?
I'm sorry, but as bad as things are at LLNL, we do not have to deal with the intellectual midgets that work in B311.