Milestone: Average Compensation For Federal Workers Now Matches Microsoft Employees…
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With a tiny fraction of the productivity.
Via Weekly Standard:
It’s regularly been pointed out that the average compensation — that includes pay and benefits — for federal workers is now double the private sector average. Defenders of federal employees have routinely insisted that this is an unfair comparison. Well, Andrew Biggs, the former Social Security Administration deputy commissioner for policy and American Enterprise Insititute Scholar, points to this astonishing fact:
The average federal government employee receives a salary of around $75,000 per year. With present and future fringe benefits equal to about 76 percent of salaries, that makes for total annual compensation of around $133,000. How does this match up to the private sector?
CNN Money has a nice survey of the 25 highest paying companies in the country, outlining the average total compensation per employee in each one. According to CNN, the closest match to federal employment is Microsoft, whose average employee compensation is 133,023 per year, making it the 17th highest paying company in the country.
So there you have it. Federal workers are paid as much as one of America’s most prestigious and highest paying employers.
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And the federal workforce grows like a cancer on the body politic. Then add in that the IRS reports that federal employees owe several billions in unpaid taxes and wonder why we a fucked.
While I understand the frustration with the Federal “work” force, many folks are not aware that a portion of that work force are actually military guard and reservists hired through Title 32, both GS and Wage Grade employees. They wear military uniforms and perform their normal traditional guard/reserve duties, but as a military civilian. Their pay is the same and was frozen along with the rest of the slugs that work at less popular agencies. Many of those positions are at the lower end of the GS pay scale, GS-6 and 7, hardly raking in big bucks. These members are regularly called to active duty and deployed along with their Active Duty brethren.
So calls for drastic cuts in pay and benefits will certainly negatively impact this group of dedicated, hard working military members. I would be thrilled if they could all be converted into the Active Guard/Reserve program and we could get rid of the military civilian program, but that will likely never happen.
Man, how can *I* get me one of them high payin’ porn surfing gummint jobs?
MS products are equally effective as govt so this seems fair
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The average federal government employee receives a salary of around $75,000 per year:
As a federal employee myself I want to know where the rest of my pay check is because it is nowhere close to this, and I do not get medical ro dental coverage. I do beleive they need to say teh average fed worker in DC.
How do i get a job at Southern Ohio medical center ???? OMG
Well isn’t that nice ,for some people .
There is a rumor that has been going around that Obama signed a bill placing a hiring freeze on whites for government jobs but i can find no evidence of it.
On average, their “productivity” is negative.
It’s good enough for government work….
A phrase which doesn’t speak well of the work habits of a DC government employee.
They’re too busy learning about the in’s and out’s of LGBT sensitivities and attending seminars on the historical contributions to society of blacks and females and how racism and sexism undermines everything. And, of course, those great consumers of an federal employee’s work day, the union meetings and Democrat political coordination speeches.
After all that, they might get around to throwing a few papers around and then filing grievances.
Sumthin fishy goin on in southern Ohio.
And more and more private sector employees are going without benefits like health insurance so that they and their employers can afford to pay for the benefits of the public sector employees. It will so so wonderful when the private sector employees can finally get covered under Obamacare…no wait, they’ll be paying for that too. Hey, I know! Let’s ALL work for the federal government and let those useful idiot unicorns and leprechauns pay for it, HA!
It will cost those who are elected to represent us. If death was the end they would be getting off easy.
Lousy headline. After taking a good look at the graph, a far more appropriate headline would have been:
Federal employee salaries approaching parity with Goldman Sachs.
I am certain that the medical center’s employees are almost all surgeons, and specialists at that. Specialized surgeons complete the following educational program: 4 years of college, 4 years of medical school, and then anywhere from 7-9 years of residency afterwards. You want to train 17 years to do your job, go ahead—you will have earned your pay. I trained 12 years to be a psychiatrist. Undergrad and law school combined is 7 years. Which is why you have unemployed lawyers, but positions for MDs go begging.