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FEDERAL SALARIES LAG BEHIND PRIVATE SECTOR BY 35 PERCENT ON AVERAGE, PAY COUNCIL SAYS
The Washington Post ^ | 11-9-15 | Eric Yoder

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: federalemployees; federalpaygap; federalsalaries; federalworkers; pay; paygap; underpayment
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To: sharkhawk

I am not a federal worker you creeper. When is the Lord taking you from us. You are a miserable jerk who is a liar.


81 posted on 11/10/2015 3:41:56 PM PST by napscoordinator (Walker for President 2016. The only candidate with actual real RESULTS!!!!! The rest...talkers!)
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To: NorthMountain

I am not a federal worker. Why the hell are you lying. Just because I am aware of how things are does not make me a worker there. Lord some of you guys need to get educated.


82 posted on 11/10/2015 3:44:39 PM PST by napscoordinator (Walker for President 2016. The only candidate with actual real RESULTS!!!!! The rest...talkers!)
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To: Alfred O. Bama
Salaries of federal employees continue to lag behind those of similar private-sector jobs

The devil is in the details here. How do you judge equivalence between private and gov't jobs when the administrative jobs so beloved by the gov't have been largely eliminated as "non value added" in the private sector?

83 posted on 11/10/2015 7:53:38 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: napscoordinator
Looking at your profile, you are a state employee. Big F'ing difference. I suppose you think both state and fed employees are underpaid. Have you ever worked in the private sector? Had to meet a payroll? without the hard working taxpayers paying your bloated pay and the pay of your "secretary" and the bloated pensions you will be receiving?

I also see somehow you claim to be for small government while never have had a job that wasn't government related, your attitude towards the people who pay your salary and pension is pathetic. Great, you were in the Navy for 24 years, and that is admirable, but what you have done after that and the way you treat others on FR is not.

84 posted on 11/10/2015 10:02:56 PM PST by sharkhawk (Here come the Hawks, the mighty Black Hawks)
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To: sharkhawk

Sorry you have a pitiful life. Not my problem. Do better next time. Not all of us are equal. Remember that. Perhaps you have something besides success and decency in your life that you don’t know yet. Get over yourself. You are not the most important person on here. You seem to be full of yourself. Your an idiot to......I have many secretaries in my business that I run. Yes I also teach at the college. I succeed in all. Sorry you don’t as you have claimed many times now. Poor you is what you want me to say.....well if it makes you feel better then I will. I am sorry you have a pathetic life and I hope you can make something of whatever is left of it. What can I do for you? Need a donation to feed your kids? Can’t pay medical bills? Can’t pay rent? What is your major problem that you can’t control in your life? Please tell me.


85 posted on 11/11/2015 12:43:23 AM PST by napscoordinator (Walker for President 2016. The only candidate with actual real RESULTS!!!!! The rest...talkers!)
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To: Alfred O. Bama

Utter BS.

If the drones don’t like the pay and bennies, go into the private sector.

Not many takers, I see.


86 posted on 11/11/2015 12:46:57 AM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Alfred O. Bama

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-sweet-gig-of-being-a-bureaucrat-1447978181?alg=y

The headline says it all.


87 posted on 11/24/2015 12:25:32 PM PST by fireforeffect (A kind word and a 2x4, gets you more than just a kind word.)
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