Oh and lets not forget special rates. Where OPM can declare a job hard to fill and give it a bonus. Doctors and flight controllers get that.
That pretty much confirms it right there. They simply could not get doctors, flight controllers, and other high-skill jobs at government salaries, so they had to sweeten the deal.
Er, shouldn't they at least try to hide the fact that they blew off all the time they should have spent doing the work (i.e. identifying comparable jobs and comparing apples to apples) instead of surfing porn all day or whatever and then throwing together two lump sums as the second hand clicked toward their publication deadline?
A 30-something percent gap is plausible, a claimed 78-percent gap (in either direction) is preposterous on its face — nobody would work in the private sector at all if that were true.
What is it with this guy, anyway? Does he just ramble on at random because he's half asleep all the time? That would explain the way he looks and talks.
Fighting them by economic measures (primarily by developing non-fossil-fuel energy infrastructure — shifting to different sources of fossil fuel enables them to get the market back by enduring short-term price cuts, but a fundamental shift leaves them permanently high and dry with no use for their oil but to make a zillion gallons of camel lube).
This is ridiculous. The way it ought to be is weighted — everybody’s primary vote counts toward 1 delegate so everybody gets some representation, but with +1 weight for each GOP federal office (Represenative, Senator, Presidential electors in previous election). That way, the blue-state primary votes would count for one each while red-region votes would count up to five each.