Good work if you can get it: Federal workers making 78% more than private sector counterparts

[OnePercenter]

“I want to stress the importance of comparing apples to apples,” said Robert Goldenkoff, director of strategic issues at the Government Accountability Office and author of a 2012 report examining the federal-private pay gap, of the new study. “Federal employees tend to be better educated and work in jobs that require higher skill levels compared to non-federal jobs, so Cato's results comparing average wages of feds to other sectors are both not surprising and don't tell the whole story. More rigorous, sophisticated analysis is needed.
Feds Earn 78% More Than Private Sector Workers, Study Finds

can't believe stephanie thinks we overpay our military.

Steph is being deceptive AGAIN! No, say it isn't so!

 

[Indeependent]

Civil workers DO make more than the private sector...the private sector fires people left and right simply to cut costs and boost the price of their stock.
Prior to the DOT COM burst and the Housing Bubble burst, workers in the private sector were making more than civil workers.
But never ask a Conservative to look at issues in context; it hurts their tiny brains.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

I know a liberal idiot who mows the grass at IAH and he'll retire with a full pension.
So what makes him smarter than a wetback?

 

[Stephanie]

Civil workers DO make more than the private sector...the private sector fires people left and right simply to cut costs and boost the price of their stock.
Prior to the DOT COM burst and the Housing Bubble burst, workers in the private sector were making more than civil workers.
But never ask a Conservative to look at issues in context; it hurts their tiny brains.

whF. this is about Government Employees and how they MAKE MORE and have pensions that WE THE PEOPLE PAY FOR

what about all this INCOME EQUALITY now

 

[Indeependent]

What makes a high school dropout Day Trader who got lucky during the Housing Bubble better than a wetback who actually builds a house?

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Civil workers DO make more than the private sector...the private sector fires people left and right simply to cut costs and boost the price of their stock.
Prior to the DOT COM burst and the Housing Bubble burst, workers in the private sector were making more than civil workers.
But never ask a Conservative to look at issues in context; it hurts their tiny brains.

whF. this is about Government Employees and how they MAKE MORE and have pensions that WE THE PEOPLE PAY FOR

what about all this INCOME EQUALITY now

Well of course that doesnt count because it's them making the money.

 

[Stephanie]

Where is the wailing about INCOME EQUALITY???????

WHY are government workers being GIVING A PASS. WE KNOW WHY

most of them are freaking LIBERALS sucking off us taxpayers

 

[Indeependent]

Civil workers DO make more than the private sector...the private sector fires people left and right simply to cut costs and boost the price of their stock.
Prior to the DOT COM burst and the Housing Bubble burst, workers in the private sector were making more than civil workers.
But never ask a Conservative to look at issues in context; it hurts their tiny brains.

whF. this is about Government Employees and how they MAKE MORE and have pensions that WE THE PEOPLE PAY FOR

what about all this INCOME EQUALITY now

You are intellectually dishonest; your comparison fails during a bubble and before Ray-Gun-izm.
Your Free Market "Ayn Rand" brand of economics brought us to this point.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

What makes a high school dropout Day Trader who got lucky during the Housing Bubble better than a wetback who actually builds a house?

How do you know he got lucky?
And whats stopping the wetback from doing the same?

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Civil workers DO make more than the private sector...the private sector fires people left and right simply to cut costs and boost the price of their stock.
Prior to the DOT COM burst and the Housing Bubble burst, workers in the private sector were making more than civil workers.
But never ask a Conservative to look at issues in context; it hurts their tiny brains.

whF. this is about Government Employees and how they MAKE MORE and have pensions that WE THE PEOPLE PAY FOR

what about all this INCOME EQUALITY now

You are intellectually dishonest; your comparison fails during a bubble and before Ray-Gun-izm.
Your Free Market "Ayn Rand" brand of economics brought us to this point.

Whats intellectually dishonest is gov workers being paid more than the private sector off the backs of the tax payer.

 

[Stephanie]

Civil workers DO make more than the private sector...the private sector fires people left and right simply to cut costs and boost the price of their stock.
Prior to the DOT COM burst and the Housing Bubble burst, workers in the private sector were making more than civil workers.
But never ask a Conservative to look at issues in context; it hurts their tiny brains.

whF. this is about Government Employees and how they MAKE MORE and have pensions that WE THE PEOPLE PAY FOR

what about all this INCOME EQUALITY now

You are intellectually dishonest; your comparison fails during a bubble and before Ray-Gun-izm.
Your Free Market "Ayn Rand" brand of economics brought us to this point.

do you lefties know how to speak without all the bs names?

Civil workers DO make more than the private sector...the private sector fires people left and right simply to cut costs and boost the price of their stock.
Prior to the DOT COM burst and the Housing Bubble burst, workers in the private sector were making more than civil workers.
But never ask a Conservative to look at issues in context; it hurts their tiny brains.

whF. this is about Government Employees and how they MAKE MORE and have pensions that WE THE PEOPLE PAY FOR

what about all this INCOME EQUALITY now

You are intellectually dishonest; your comparison fails during a bubble and before Ray-Gun-izm.
Your Free Market "Ayn Rand" brand of economics brought us to this point.

Whats intellectually dishonest is gov workers being paid more than the private sector off the backs of the tax payer.

Yeah but but, I heard something about Ray-gun-ism. they can't ever progress or stay the hell in the here and now.

 

[depotoo]

Worked for the govt once. Never did again. If you want to be valued for work ethic, stay far, far away. No amount of money is worth it.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Worked for the govt once. Never did again. If you want to be valued for work ethic, stay far, far away. No amount of money is worth it.

Many will disagree with you, and we can find many who feel the same about working for private employers.

That's why I created our family business with my sibs.

 

[Carla_Danger]

Yep...Houston is running into the same problem.
Giving golden parachutes to guys who mow the grass at our airports is ridiculous.

And I suppose you have a link to show proof of this golden parachute?

 

[Stephanie]

Holy smokes just ran across this. SO I GUESS that's how the Government workers are making 78% more. They are DEMANDING they make more than the PEOPLE paying their salaries. whoa what a freaking gig

SNIP:
Obama: Workers Organize! Demand What You Want from Your Employer
"The bottom line is that as union membership has declined, inequality has risen."
10.7.2015
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Coworker.org, described as "a digital platform dedicated to workplace advocacy." A quick visit to this site reveals the various rights they are fighting for on behalf of workers: "Let our tattoos show," "Let us have beards," "Let us wear shorts," "Let us have unnatural hair color," "Groceries, not guns at Kroger," "Wells Fargo: End the obsession with sales goals."

"This is workplace democracy in action," Kutch writes, pushing the importance of organized labor and unions.

And meeting at the East Wing this morning with union leaders, government officials, and "forward-leaning employers" over breakfast, President Obama joined the chorus of those gathered in singing the praises of organized labor.(omg they were singing and slapping each other on the ass, gross)

Using an appropriate metaphor, (what is so Appropriate about that Metaphor) Obama said, "If you're not at the table, you're on the menu. So we've got to get more working Americans to the table."

all of it here:
Obama: Workers Organize! Demand What You Want from Your Employer

 

[Carla_Danger]

Where is the wailing about INCOME EQUALITY???????

WHY are government workers being GIVING A PASS. WE KNOW WHY

most of them are freaking LIBERALS sucking off us taxpayers

You don't pay federal income taxes, dingbat.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Yep...Houston is running into the same problem.
Giving golden parachutes to guys who mow the grass at our airports is ridiculous.

And I suppose you have a link to show proof of this golden parachute?

You seemed so knowledgeable before...what happened?
I know the guy,he wont even work for 25 years to get it and all he does is mow the grass.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

they must laugh at the rest of the people not "lucky" enough to get on with Daddy Guberment while YOU pay their salary's. what a Gig eh

SNIP:
We’ve all seen the same headlines repeating for the last six years so often that it’s become part and parcel of the national milieu. Times are hard, wages are stagnant and pay isn’t keeping up with the cost of living. It’s tough out there to be sure, but there’s one segment of the American population where that doesn’t seem to be true. If you happen to work for the federal government – regardless of the job you hold, how well you perform or what happens to the market – you’re probably making way more than your counterparts in the private sector. (Government Executive Magazine)

Federal employees on average earned 78 percent more in total compensation than private sector workers in 2014, according to a new study from a conservative think tank.

The Cato Institute’s Chris Edwards compared data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis to show that, in his view, civilian federal workers are overcompensated. Factoring both salary and benefits, Edwards pointed to BEA data showing the average federal employee earns about $119,000 annually, compared to the private sector worker who earns $67,000 per year. When comparing just salaries, feds collect 50 percent bigger paychecks, Edwards said.

Back in 1990 the gap was smaller but still in place. Federal workers back then earned, on average, 39% more than private sector employees performing the same jobs. Owing to the rules of the free market, that shifted for a while during the tech boom of the late nineties, at least in a few sectors of the job market. When there were a limited number of workers skilled in a new industry, wages shot up and passed their government colleagues who were generally held to raises which follow a set formula.

Unfortunately, as Wall Street tanked and the market completely stalled, the private sector paid the price while the federal government kept on plugging along with slower, but steady increases in most cases. This led to what the study’s author describes as a situation where the Washington bureaucracy became “an elite island of secure and high-paid employment, separated from the ocean of average Americans competing in the economy.”

Of course, it doesn’t help that it’s nearly impossible to fire a federal employee.

ALL of it here:
Good work if you can get it: Federal workers making 78% more than private sector counterparts « Hot Air

you want to whine about federal workers making money......whine about the this last crop of GOP welfare kings who get 6 figures of my hard earned dollars and don't do a damn thing to earn it but sit on their white as's and hate on Obama....now put that in your effin pipe and choke on it.

And who are these welfare kings making six figures?

 

[Carla_Danger]

Yep...Houston is running into the same problem.
Giving golden parachutes to guys who mow the grass at our airports is ridiculous.

And I suppose you have a link to show proof of this golden parachute?

You seemed so knowledgeable before...what happened?
I know the guy,he wont even work for 25 years to get it and all he does is mow the grass.

Where's your link? You know I'm not going to take your word that someone in the landscaping business has a golden parachute, right? They average around 24K a year.

Landscape Laborer Salary (United States)

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Yep...Houston is running into the same problem.
Giving golden parachutes to guys who mow the grass at our airports is ridiculous.

And I suppose you have a link to show proof of this golden parachute?

You seemed so knowledgeable before...what happened?
I know the guy,he wont even work for 25 years to get it and all he does is mow the grass.

Where's your link? You know I'm not going to take your word that someone in the landscaping business has a golden parachute, right? They average around 24K a year.

Landscape Laborer Salary (United States)

He works for the city dumbass.