Federal Salaries Fall Behind Private Sector, Panel Says

Washington Post ^ | November 1, 2010 | Lisa Rein and Eric Yoder

[Poundstone]

Official numbers released by the government late last week show salaries of federal workers falling slightly farther behind their private-sector counterparts in the last year, by an average of 2.1 percent across the country.

The disparity shows wide variations among the 31 regions where the government compares federal pay with salaries for private-sector jobs in order to determine pay raises. The Washington-Baltimore area, for example, showed among the largest gaps, with federal workers 38 percent behind the private sector.

[gusopol3]

I don’t think reporters who know their jobs hang by a thread are going to let them get away with this; it’s the one area where I think they may be alert to reality.

[Poundstone]

Uh, I think we heard you the first time, nmh!

[nmh]

Federal employees are doing better than you in salary alone.

Benefits are better too!

Another LIE:

Federal pay ahead of private industry
Updated 3/8/2010 3:03 PM

Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-03-04-federal-pay_N.htm

[nmh]

Another LIE:

Federal pay ahead of private industry
Updated 3/8/2010 3:03 PM

Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-03-04-federal-pay_N.htm

[nmh]

It’s another convenient LIE.

Another LIE:

Federal pay ahead of private industry
Updated 3/8/2010 3:03 PM

Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-03-04-federal-pay_N.htm

[nmh]

Another LIE:

Federal pay ahead of private industry
Updated 3/8/2010 3:03 PM

Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-03-04-federal-pay_N.htm

[throwback]

What's the Post's circulation outside the D.C. hog trough? Washington Post Pander.

[nmh]

RIGHT YOU ARE!

Another LIE:

Federal pay ahead of private industry
Updated 3/8/2010 3:03 PM

Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-03-04-federal-pay_N.htm

[nmh]

Another LIE:

Federal pay ahead of private industry
Updated 3/8/2010 3:03 PM

Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-03-04-federal-pay_N.htm

[nmh]

Another LIE:

Federal pay ahead of private industry
Updated 3/8/2010 3:03 PM

Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-03-04-federal-pay_N.htm

[nmh]

They can’t keep their lies straight!

Another LIE:

Federal pay ahead of private industry
Updated 3/8/2010 3:03 PM

Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-03-04-federal-pay_N.htm

[nmh]

Another LIE:

Federal pay ahead of private industry
Updated 3/8/2010 3:03 PM

Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-03-04-federal-pay_N.htm

[VOA]

“
Federal Salaries Fall Behind Private Sector, Panel Says
“

What a load of Bravo Sierra.
The only folks I know that are fat and happy are university professors,
public school teachers and Federal/State employees.

But they always B-tch about how their salaries are “flat” in recent years
and how some are now required to actually contribute to their own
retirement accounts.

They seem to be oblivious to their great fortune in actually being
employed during the worst economic downturn since The Great Depression.
But that’s not suprising. Most of the “educators” I know are clueless
about history, even if they teach it.

[nmh]

It’s NOT true anywhere.

The real problem is funding the FEDERAL PENSIONS.

Salaries already EXCEED the private sector without taking into consideration the federal benefits.

Another LIE:

Federal pay ahead of private industry
Updated 3/8/2010 3:03 PM

Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-03-04-federal-pay_N.htm

[nmh]

Another LIE:

Federal pay ahead of private industry
Updated 3/8/2010 3:03 PM

Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-03-04-federal-pay_N.htm

[nmh]

Another LIE:

Federal pay ahead of private industry
Updated 3/8/2010 3:03 PM

Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-03-04-federal-pay_N.htm

[nmh]

Another LIE:

Federal pay ahead of private industry
Updated 3/8/2010 3:03 PM

Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-03-04-federal-pay_N.htm

[VOA]

“
Bureaucracy lies, it’s their nature.
“

“The job of a bureacracy is...to grown the bureacracy.”

It was Ronald Reagan that said something like that.
I’m still a bit miffed that the Republicans haven’t loudly cried
that Reagan showed how to get out a severe economic downturn...
as opposed to Obama’s strategy (MAYBE unintentional) to prolong and
deepen the economic misery.

[Publius6961]

...look for the MSM to unleash the sob stories about how some poor, dedicated government worker is about to get thrown out of his house and his children will starve because of the evil GOP.

Screw the MSM.
When the taxpayer is unemployed, thrown out of their homes and their children starving that is the natural order of things?

I have a flash for the bureaucrats and those lovely public employees...

I certainly don't wish them ill, but an equal sharing of misery is the hallmark of the socialism they are foisting on the rest of us.