Posted on 08/11/2010 2:57:27 PM PDT by NoLibZone
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.
The federal compensation advantage has grown from $30,415 in 2000 to $61,998 last year.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/08/10/federal-workers-earning-double-their-private-counterparts/#ixzz0wKvy4SIC
Normally I would avoid the stock market, but I think it is time to go all in for stocks in Pitchfork and torch companies. Tar futures should be up as well.
And Tysons may have a real use for all those feathers.
Media discovers that White-collar workers earn more than a mix of White-collar and Blue-collar workers. Next amazing revelations: Sun Found To Rise In East; Bear Feces Discovered In Forest.
Cantor said it last night on Greta (I am paraphrasing): “We are going to have to decide whether the private sector exists simply to support the government, or whether the government exists to support the private sector.”
Scientists discover that males are attrackted to females!
Do you have something realistic to say about wage differences or just speculating?
Is there anything in the study that compares educational levels of federal workers to those in the private sector, i.e., are they comparing workers of equal educational backgrounds?
Now you toss those jobs, and all the CEOs of all the business in America into the mix, federal employees are going to average out kind of low.
I wonder. It seems to me that we may have reached the fabled tipping point. More voters now seem to benefit from welfare state freebies than those who have to pay the bills. That's the only thing I can think of that keeps Democrat polling as high as it is. In fact it's probably what got Zero elected in the first place. November will be very revealing.
“Media discovers that White-collar workers earn more than a mix of White-collar and Blue-collar workers.”
You think all postal worker’s are white-collar? You think the TSA guys are all white-collar? You think the building maintenance personnel in federal buildings are all white-collar?
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“November will be very revealing.”
At the speed this seems to be unravelling, I don’t think it will take that long. That is actually kinda scary.
I’m not joking about the pitchforks and torches as much as many may think. :-\
EWWWWWW - and don’t forget about the PENSIONS!
Yep, I remember Rush talking about this yesterday. It’s disgusting.
I am not surprised. When the government becomes master rather than servant of the people, the masters always make more.
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unfortunately we are at a point where it is time to act in any means necessary to stop this SH*T! the cost will be high...but...
I have seen postings for federal jobs equivalent to the duties and responsibilities and educational requirements of my private sector job that paid $20k more.
Take out the CEOs and the business managers and the comparison shift even more in favor of the government worker.
Keep digging.
Reading federal job postings is an art. Frequently there will be a little kicker in there ~ ability to determine ROI ~ really rare in the government, but the folks reviewing your application may or may not evaluate it highly ~ if you can't do it, you weren't qualified. If you can do it, but were the only candidate who could, and you don't get picked, that simply means it wasn't evaluated highly.
Then there's the "experience" part ~ sometimes they mean you came into the occupational area, worked there a couple of years at each level (e.g. GS 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13) and now you can bid on the GS 14 or GS 15 level.
That can be a killer in most jobs ~ outsiders with less than 15 to 20 years equivalent experience won't even be looked at.
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