Private industry is trying to attract skilled research scientists by offering them high salaries  As a result, most research scientists employed in private industry now earn 50 percent more than do comparably skilled research scientists employed by the government
So, unless government-employed research scientists are motivated more by a sense of public duty than by their own interests, the government is likely to lose its most skilled research scientists to private industry, since none of these scientists would have problems finding private-sector jobs
Research scientists employed in the private sector generally work longer hours than do researchers employed by the government.