Posted on 11/10/2015 9:40:44 AM PST by Alfred O. Bama
Salaries of federal employees continue to lag behind those of similar private-sector jobs by 35 percent on average, an advisory committee has said in presenting what amounts to the latest data point in a long-running debate over how the two sectors compare.
The 34.92 percent "pay gap" reported Friday essentially duplicates the 35.37 and 35.28 percent numbers reported the last two years by the Federal Salary Council and is close to those of other recent years....
Under a 1990 law, the numbers are supposed to be used to virtually close the measured differences with private-sector pay. However, no administration or Congress since then has supported providing the funds to do that....
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Last time I checked no one is forcing people to work for the gov’t. If things are so bad working for the gov’t, give the private sector a try. For you gov’t workers who are thinking about taking the leap, it really is Shangri-La out here in the private sector. We take monthly vacations to Tahiti and drink Mai-Tais every workday after 3pm. And no one ever gets fired.
Government employment has always been about the benefits, not the pay.
Government workers, when I was a youth, low those many years ago, traded pay for benefits and retirement.
Anyway, if a government worker feels they are underpaid, they are always free to explore the private sector.
If you want to make more money and have to do less Washington is the place to go. Nobody does less and will cost more then the government desk holders. Not workers but position holders.
Isn't the difference made up in job security?
That and loads of vacation time.
I took a $5K cut to move to a DoD Civil Service position, but job security, potential for overtime (which wasn't paid at my private sector job) and vacation/holidays led me to switch.
Let’s see, they get to Telework (i.e., little to no work) once every two weeks and Compressed Work Schedule (where they sit around late each day doing nothing to get to 9.5 hrs) that gives them every other Friday off. So, that works out to about 24-26 extra days of vacation for CWS and another 24-26 days of “Telework” that’s mostly no work.
Find that in the private sector.
Spending your day watching Porn on Government Computers doesn’t pay like it used to. So sad.
But the average federal worker makes something like 1.8 times the average private sector worker. Study: Government Workers Make 78 Percent More Than Private Sector
Some of that difference is explained by the fact that government needs workers more capable than a burger flipper. But it often looks like they have filled the jobs with burger flippers anyway.
If you think gov't workers aren't getting paid enough, guess what? There's a party that supports your position - it is called the Democrat Party. Go to them. They will listen to your complaints with a much more sympathetic ear than people who vote conservative will.
As my Father once told me, the only time you can complain about a Job is the day someone puts a Gun to your Head and makes you take it.
Of course you could say the same about the fat paychecks you all get on the civilian side. You guys are the destroyers of our economy. Proved by lay offs all over the place.
And you nit wit, I don’t work for the federal government you slut.
Yeah right you heathen. You would be destroyed if that happened.
How many people in the Federal government produce a million dollars worth of service to the public? And by that I mean the worthwhile part of the public, not the parasites.
Apples and Oranges.
Government jobs do not have to create value. Private Sector jobs MUST create value to justify existence.
HORESHIT.
Hi.
I hope this story is true.
5.56mm
So many departments with so many bureaucrats under the Executive Branch that are really unconstitutional entities with so much power Congress has abdicated to them means Yes. You are correct. FIRE EVERY DAMNED ONE OF THEM.
If the States want to pick up any of, or partial of some Fed. Department, then that’s up to the people of that State.
Cut down the Fed. Cut down the power of the Fed. Cut down the payroll of the Fed. Cut down our taxes.
I can dream.
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.
Hell if I know. Go ask them. I am just bringing facts into this. Everyone says how wonderful it is in the government because life is always greener on the other side. Civilian companies treat their employees like crap. No benefits, cheating on hours, and so much else. If they would show respect perhaps many would want to work for the crocked companies.
BTTT
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