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Federal Workers Now Paid Twice as Much as Private Sector Workers

We all need to get a job working for the federal government. The pay is great and the benefits cannot be beaten – great medical care, early retirement for a fixed amount not subject to stock market losses, lots of time off and virtually impossible to be fired even if you watch porn all day on your computer in your government office. USA Today: “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 Government Pay Boom

Wall St. Journal: “America’s most privileged class are public union workers. It turns out there really is growing inequality in America. It’s the 45% premium in pay and benefits that government workers receive over the poor saps who create wealth in the private economy.”

Federal Employees Paid More than Public Employees

USA Today has a story entitled “Federal Employees Paid More than Public Employees” that sheds more light on the upside down facts of life that the people of the United States pay taxes so that federal government workers can be on the gravy train. The story says:

“Federal employees earn higher average salaries than private-sector workers in more than eight out of 10 occupations, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data finds. . . . Overall, federal workers earned an average salary of $67,691 in 2008 . . . . These salary figures do not include the value of health, pension and other benefits, which averaged $40,785 per federal employee in 2008 vs. $9,882 per private worker, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.”