For feds, more get 6-figure salaries

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For feds, more get 6-figure salaries - USATODAY.com

Federal employees making salaries of $100,000 or more jumped from 14% to 19% of civil servants during the recession's first 18 months — and that's before overtime pay and bonuses are counted.
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When the recession started, the Transportation Department had only one person earning a salary of $170,000 or more. Eighteen months later, 1,690 employees had salaries above $170,000.
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We all have to cut back in tough times, but at least our tax money is getting put to good use. :rolleyes:
 
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I'm not surprised..... Perhaps one day everyone will wake up and realize we're being fucked instead of kissed?

Doubt it.........
 
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meanwhile the government at large wants us to give them more money and want to spend more of our money.

and obama wants the banks to loan us more money to get us out of this economic mess. yep, borrowing your way out of debt, brilliant idea.


fucking idiots. the entire fed can burn in hell.
 
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A few interesting facts here...

Jessica Klement, government affairs director for the Federal Managers Association, says the federal workforce is highly paid because the government employs skilled people such as scientists, physicians and lawyers. She says federal employees make 26% less than private workers for comparable jobs.
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• Pay hikes. Then-president Bush recommended — and Congress approved — across-the-board raises of 3% in January 2008 and 3.9% in January 2009. President Obama has recommended 2% pay raises in January 2010, the smallest since 1975. Most federal workers also get longevity pay hikes — called steps — that average 1.5% per year.
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I would really like to see the numbers, all the numbers. Are the workers making 26% less than private workers for comparable jobs? If so, then why are we complaining?
And you can see that pay raises were 3% and 3.9% under Bush and only 2% under Obama. Yet the article makes it seem like this is something that just happened during the recession. Like Obama got into office, saw that we were in a recession and decided to boost all of the Federal employees pay...
 
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Do you really believe there's 1400+ people in the DoT who should be making over $170,000? Really?

Let me update my facts. Liberals hate rich people, unless they're rich because they work for the government. Got it.
 
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Tim said:
I would really like to see the numbers, all the numbers. Are the workers making 26% less than private workers for comparable jobs? If so, then why are we complaining?
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They aren't making any less in engineering at my level. About 30% more actually. The only reason I haven't gone civil servant is the increased bullshit inherent to being a gov't engineer far outweighs the pay increase....
 
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Take the cue from Singapore.

Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s pay will fall 19 percent to S$3.04 million ($2 million) next year as the government slashes civil-servant wages in response to the deepening global financial crisis.
Wages of new ministers will fall 18 percent to S$1.57 million next year, and members of parliament will receive S$190,000, a 16 percent reduction, the government said in a statement late yesterday
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Singapore Prime Minister Lee to Take 19% Pay Cut Amid Slowdown - Bloomberg.com
 
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Tim said:
I would really like to see the numbers, all the numbers. Are the workers making 26% less than private workers for comparable jobs? If so, then why are we complaining?
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Because the vast majority of those jobs shouldn't exist in the first place. Most of the federal departments are not needed, indeed are arguably unconstitutional. Everyone employed by those departments, right up to the secretary in charge and the czar Obama put in place to override him, is wasteful and steals money from the American taxpayer.
 
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Holy shit! Your Prime Minister make $2mil?? Singapore's a city-state. That means the PM is the mayor, for cryin' out loud!
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dt3 said:
Jesus fucking Christ!
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This is the main reason and it worked for us.
Singapore’s first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew has often defended civil-servant salaries, arguing in his autobiography “From Third World to First” that “underpaid ministers and public officials have ruined many governments in Asia.”
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kelvin070 said:
This is the main reason and it worked for us.

"Singapore’s first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew has often defended civil-servant salaries, arguing in his autobiography “From Third World to First” that “underpaid ministers and public officials have ruined many governments in Asia.”
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I'd argue that if I were PM, too. :D
 
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