Federal Workers Earning Double Their Private Counterparts
August 12th, 2010Via: USA Today:
At a time when workers’ pay and benefits have stagnated, federal employees’ average compensation has grown to more than double what private sector workers earn, a USA TODAY analysis finds.
Federal workers have been awarded bigger average pay and benefit increases than private employees for nine years in a row. The compensation gap between federal and private workers has doubled in the past decade.
Federal civil servants earned average pay and benefits of $123,049 in 2009 while private workers made $61,051 in total compensation, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The data are the latest available.
I like how this is framed as some form of federal tyranny. It should really read: “Stingy corporations only paying most of their workers half of what federal employees make to maximize share-holder and insider profits.”