[DYngbld]

We just get by on my government paycheck. Agreed some top level people are getting paid way more then they are worth, but for the most part, we make less then the average worker. I don't get overtime, but there have been times when I have been at work for 4320hrs straight.

[olivia3boys]

It depends on the gov’t worker. I’m a federal employee and I’m somewhat overpaid for the absurdly easy (for me, not so easy for some of my coworkers) work I do. But there are other gov’t workers, computer programmers and engineers, who could make more in the private sector.

[cherry]

lets be honest....whatever your wage, there are tons of people making less, with and without college degrees....just look at job sites and see what people are paid nowadays....

and nothing can touch your benefits and wonderful holidays and vacation and medical......

if we had known what we know now, one of us would have been a federal employee.....we counted on a well known American industrial company that had existed for many years to be my husbands retirement and medical, and he got the proverbial shaft bigtime...

[epluribus_2]

OK - only senators, reps, executive level and judges.