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a Department of Labor assistant to answer phones at a top salary of $81,204;
What kind of obama is this obama?
The article is a bit misleading. The $81,204 salary figure is a top end number for that grade/position meaning in order for you to make that salary you have to work for twenty years. That is not what you make when you start. Probably still overpaid but not nearly as much as the article infers.
Also I seriously doubt that any assistant is being hired to just answer phones. This type of position usually comes with all sorts of tasks assigned to it. I have never seen a FEDGOV job desription for any “assistant” position that says you only answer phones.