4.0
Nov 30, 2019
Low pay, but great work environment
Current employee, less than 1 year
Port Hueneme, CA
Recommend
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Pros
Lots of knowledgeable and helpful coworkers. Get to do important work that has a direct impact on fleet readiness. Pretty good work-life balance if that sort of thing is important to you. If it wasn't for the GS pay scale, i could see myself building a lifelong career here.
Cons
The GS pay scale is a bad joke. Not all Navsea centers use it, but Port Hueneme does. It's not easy working hard in school to become an engineer, and then still be barely getting by paycheck to paycheck while all my other engineering friends, who graduated with me, have jobs where they get to live very comfortably. People often tell you that the benefits make up for the pathetic pay, but i'm a little suspect of that claim.
