08-25-2010, 01:21 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.
No, their paycheck does NOT equal $123K. Those numbers include a calculated value for health care and leave time. Also - do "Private workers" include all those people earning minimum wage? For the most part, the Federal Government does not have minimum wage type jobs. A better comparison would be wage + benefits comparison for similar jobs - Engineer vs. Engineer, Project Manager vs. Project Manager, etc. Not Engineer vs. DoYouWantFriesWithThat...