One item mentioned is that the average age at the FDA is 54 and that 30% are eligible to retire. It sounds like perhaps a move to bring some new faces in to action. In a related story there’s an anonymous website with both former and present employees who’s goal appears to be to expose...
By comparison, small bonuses were paid to scientists and doctors. $35 million in bonuses all together were handed out. The head of the criminal investigation division made more than the director of the FBI and the person in charge of revising the bonus system, well, they got the biggest bonus...