Latest report about the Protected Class

[stuckincincy]

Federal workers earning double their private counterparts

Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY 8/11/10

 

"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."...

 

http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/inco...dpay10_ST_N.htm

[Booster4324]

Federal workers earning double their private counterparts

Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY 8/11/10

 

"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."...

 

http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/inco...dpay10_ST_N.htm

 

Public employee unions say the compensation gap reflects the increasingly high level of skill and education required for most federal jobs and the government contracting out lower-paid jobs to the private sector in recent years.

 

So how bad would the government be if we didn't have such highly skilled and educated employees running the bureaucracy?

[ExiledInIllinois]

Good! For all the years I was making way less than the private-sector and people were telling me I was nuts. This evens things out!

 

Slow and steady wins the race! Job security and steady employment have always been my goal, even in era when I could have made more. All the years beinig 100's of miles from family, missing functions and child births... Working all kinds of crazy hours...

 

Sorry Cincy... Cry me a river... In the trades I could have been making a lot more.

 

Now... I didn't read the article... I am speakiing on behalf of what I do. Even as a surveyor, my salary was nothing to what it would have been in the private sector.

 

Again I speak from my bizarre, little naive old-school utopia...