"Many civil servants below SCS [senior civil service] level are entitled to pay increments, while the base salary for the SCS has reduced by around 17% in real terms over four years, making promotion to the SCS less attractive for experienced, talented people.
This theoretical "staple calorie share" (SCS) can then be compared with the make-up of a person's actual diet.
German and US diplomatic relations have fallen to an unprecedented low since evidence emerged that the personal mobile of Mrs Merkel, who is known to conduct sensitive government business by phone and text message, was targeted by SCS.
The NSA document outlining Stateroom describes it as "covert SIGINT [signals intelligence] collection sites located in diplomatic facilities abroad... [including] SCS (at US diplomatic facilities) and government communications headquarters (at British diplomatic facilities)".
But many SCs, Ian Miller says, go on to do much more than that.
"So as much as possible, we want our SCs to represent a wide cross-section of those very people".
The eavesdropping base, concealed in a box-like structure with special windows made of fibreglass which are opaque to light but allow radio signals to pass unhindered, was run jointly by CIA and NSA agents in a top-secret unit called the Special Collection Service (SCS).
"Look, people become SCs because they get an adrenalin kick from being in a uniform, from driving around in a car at speed, and from arresting someone.
The settlement covers Carpetright, bed retailer Dreams, Furniture Village, Homestyle's Harveys and Bensons for Beds chains, and sofa specialist ScS.
In 2005, Strickland had a spinal cord stimulation (SCS) device implanted to target her pain, and when this stopped working in 2011, Dr Thomson recommended a Spinal Modulation Axium Neurostimulator System.
There are currently just under 4,000 staff in the SCS.
