[MNJohnnie]

I spent 3 years interning at a Fed agency while going to college. I know from first hand expereince the difference.

For example,

Federal Employees get double the number of pay holidays then private sector workers. 13 to 6. That is a whole extra paid week off every single year. So right there Fed workers work less hours, for more pay, then their private sector counterparts.

[muawiyah]

Anyone can quickly and easily discover how many paid federal holidays there are for federal employees at the reference at the end of this statement. I think you are confounding “federal holidays” with “annual leave ~ that is paid vacation of 13 days ~ not terribly different than the private sector, and even with senior employees earning 26 days per year, nothing like AFL-CIO-UAW vacations STARTING at 12 weeks per annum. BTW, my count is that there are 10 federal holidays, 6 of which are NOT WIDELY OBSERVED ~ but that’s between you and your boss. So, take a look at http://www.opm.gov/operating_status_schedules/fedhol/2019.asp