Ensuring the Department of Justice has an adequate budget to resource its components and properly compensate those enforcing the law is both a human capital and a national security concern.

Ensuring the Department of Justice has an adequate budget to resource its components and properly compensate those enforcing the law is both a human capital and a national security concern.

The current pay system over relies on the goodwill on AUSAs who are willing to take a pay cut to serve their country. This is unsustainable and places our U.S. Attorney Offices at a disadvantage in the recruitment and retention of qualified personnel. Without top talent our criminal justice system cannot adequately serve and protect the American people.

Ensuring the Department of Justice has an adequate budget to resource its components and properly compensate those enforcing the law is both a human capital and a national security concern.

Dear U.S. Attorneys Deegan and Pak: Thank you for meeting with us in Washington last week. Our discussion was productive, and we are appreciative of your interest in the issue of pay for Assistant United States Attorneys.

Dear U.S. Attorneys Deegan and Pak: I write to ask you to end the disparity in pay which causes Assistant United States Attorneys to earn tens of thousands of dollars less each year than their colleagues in the Department of Justice's litigating divisions. The data is clear

The methodology relied upon in the JMD report to analyze salaries is flawed because it is based upon years from appointment as opposed to years of post-JD experience, which is how salaries are determined under the AD pay scale.