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Federal pay gap widens, report says
The Washington Post ^ | 11/4/11 | Eric Yoder

Posted on 11/30/2011 12:05:43 PM PST by Retro Llama

The federal government reported Friday that on average, its employees are underpaid by 26.3 percent compared with similar non-federal jobs, a "pay gap" that increased by about 2 percentage points over last year while federal salary rates were frozen....

The pay gap in the Washington-Baltimore area was calculated at 36.9 percent, slightly below the 38.1 percent reported last year. Officials said a variety of factors could have caused that result, including changes in the mix of jobs and switching thousands of Defense Department employees into the general schedule and out of a separate pay system that is being phased out....

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government
KEYWORDS: economy; federalemployees; federalpay; federalpaygap; federalwages; labor; workforce
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To: muawiyah
"The guys who fill chuckholes in Virginia are state government employees. What do you think a Government Research Doctor should get? More than a pavement patcher? Less than a pavement patcher? About the same perhaps?"

I narrowed my comparison to D.C Fed worker and Virgina State workers "with similar duties" so I have no idea what you are talking about. But I don't think a Fed. Research Doctor deserves any more than a State Research Doctor. Although they get substantially more.

21 posted on 11/30/2011 1:23:47 PM PST by circlecity
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To: muawiyah
“Speaking of which (private sector) how much does a CEO make?”

CEO compensation varies greatly depending on the company, the company's performance and compensation agreement the CEO has with the company. Some CEO’s make millions of dollars per year. Some are fired.

No company in their right mind would hire a community organizer who is incapable of speaking without a teleprompter to be their CEO.

If that CEO effectively bankrupted the company, destroyed it's credit rating and continually lied to the Board of Directors and the auditors that CEO would most likely be fired and sent to prison.

22 posted on 11/30/2011 1:50:54 PM PST by detective
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To: circlecity
Most US government employees work somewhere other than DC.

Richmond is a good hour's drive South of here.

Their state accountants get pretty much the same as federal accountants ~

23 posted on 11/30/2011 1:51:00 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: detective

My minority stockholders suit has a core argument that the members of the Board, their spouses and chilluns’ and half the lawyers in the country should not only be fired, they should be imprisoned and fed cheap gruel.


24 posted on 11/30/2011 1:59:59 PM PST by muawiyah
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