Vantaggi
The only pro I can really think of at this point is that I'm still bringing in a pay check. I guess that's something.
Svantaggi
Ever since I started working for BAH, I have heard on a consistent basis "I'm sorry, we'd like to give you a bigger raise, but it's been a tough year". Now with the "new and improved" assessment process, nobody really even knows how raises are determined anymore. When I started working for BAH, each year an additional 10% of my salary was put into a retirement account. Now they've decided to do away with that, and the only way we can get the company to put a dime into our retirement accounts is to cut our pay. But with the HORRIBLE raises we've received the past few years, which barely keep up with inflation, who can really afford to do that? Management expects you to put hours of extra work into proposals, then you don't see ANY impact for that when it's to get your annual raise, due to a BS excuse. I've had enough. Career opportunities outside of DC are few and far between. Management seems to lose sight of the fact that people who work on the outer edges of the "DC Area" can't always easily travel to DC on a moment's notice, and certainly can't commute to DC for a different contract - especially since BAH refuses to provide additional pay to compensate for the extra travel expense.