Need to find out what bonuses, when paid and when gov money went in.
The government however issued far more then 18 B in bonuses to government employees - anyone upset about that?
Let's say we had 3 million federal employees. That would be 18,000,000,000/3,000,000 pr 18,000/3, or 6,000 per federal employee.
That's not exactly the kinds of bonuses those bankers got!
BTW, whatever part of his federal pay a federal employee might get as a "bonus", it's still gotta' be under the federal employee paycap.
Then, there's this trick. The reason they give someone a "bonus" is because that's a one time payment. It doesn't count in your retirement computation. The federales don't have to pay TSP on it either.
Bonuses for mid-level federal employees are designed primarily to cheat them out of retirement credits.