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“Those who can do that challenge could easily earn up to £80,000 a year in the private sector. It’s disappointing that as a society, we are not willing to acknowledge those skills by spending more money.”
Iain Lobban, the director of GCHQ, has admitted that while he can offer his staff a “fantastic mission” he struggles to retain the best staff.
He told the parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee earlier this year: “They will be working for Microsoft or Google or Amazon or whoever. And I can’t compete with their salaries. I can offer them a fantastic mission, but I can’t compete with their salaries.
“Month-on-month, we are losing whizzes who’ll basically say: ‘I’m sorry, I am going to take three times the salary and the car and whatever else’."
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