08-25-2010, 01:12 AM
Mini 9 wrote:
Recent headlines:
Average gubmint employee makes $123,000 per year.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/08/1...1340.shtml
Their pay and benefits averaged $123,049 in 2009, up 36.9 percent since 2000. Private workers averaged $61,051, up just 8.8 percent during the same time.
I call Bull$hit on that. Go to www.opm.gov and look up the salary tables. Here's a link: http://www.opm.gov/oca/10tables/html/gs.asp
The VAST majority of federal workers are on the GS schedule (or the WG schedule, where the pay is even lower) and the vast majority of them are at or below the GS-11 level. I'd like to know how they calculate the benefits. Long gone are the days that federal employees didn't pay into social security. Health care is affordable, but not free. And in the technical sector, even though the "average" federal employee in a scientific/engineering position makes more than the "average" private sector employee, they make FAR less than scientists/engineers in the private sector. The last study I saw determined that, salary-wise, the federal scientist/engineer makes between 20 and 25% LESS than his private sector counterpart.