8.10.2010

I, for one, welcome our new government employee overlords

Life just keeps getting better and better for the ruling class:
At a time when workers' pay and benefits have stagnated, federal employees' average compensation has grown to more than double what private sector workers earn, a USA TODAY analysis finds.

Federal workers have been awarded bigger average pay and benefit increases than private employees for nine years in a row. The compensation gap between federal and private workers has doubled in the past decade.

Federal civil servants earned average pay and benefits of $123,049 in 2009 while private workers made $61,051 in total compensation, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The data are the latest available.

The federal compensation advantage has grown from $30,415 in 2000 to $61,998 last year.

[...] Federal compensation has grown 36.9% since 2000 after adjusting for inflation, compared with 8.8% for private workers.




HT: T-Dub

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