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| Government Employees Earn Almost Double The Average American |
| 2017-08-03 |
| h/t Instapundit There’s a reason government jobs are so sought after: The average government salary is nearly double the average American worker’s. The average government salary in 2016 was $83,072, according to a report on federal salaries from the Office of Personnel Management released in July. By comparison, the average wage index for the U.S. in 2015, the most recent available calculation, was $48,098, according to the Social Security Administration. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #10 A wonderful step in the direction of income equality would be requiring Congressional and other government employees to be subject to Obamacare. The lie that Congress is a small business has allowed Congressional employees and Congresspeople to get subsidies that they are not entitled to. Why not get rid of that? The only question of interest is: should the recipients of this fraudulent government largesse be required to reimburse the government for past illegal subsidies? I note that the Obama administration billed veterans in a somewhat analogous situation. |
| Posted by: Daniel 2017-08-03 15:14 |
| #9 Pournell is a gold mine, no? I can only think of the many obscure, idiot laws they maintain. We really need to break this back down to the states. This Leviathan has a life of it's own and you cannot live with it. |
| Posted by: newc 2017-08-03 12:57 |
| #8 You are pointing to an article bemoaning the Federal bureaucracy. A bunny inspector where? Washington DC? Los Angeles? Des Moines? Los Cruces? What pay grade? How many years in service? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-08-03 12:38 |
| #7 Skid, newc - you should ask how much a bunny inspector earns. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-08-03 11:13 |
| #6 Earn? The sinecurists are paid but whether they earn i is debatable. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2017-08-03 11:02 |
| #5 There was a different time when this was not so. Because they are paid more than the average American, it fosters an atmosphere of elitism in government. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-08-03 10:19 |
| #4 An old trick - keeping the Military as an UN-employed stat helps. |
| Posted by: newc 2017-08-03 04:59 |
| #3 The source for this article is a little inflammatory. Please consider the 'Cost of Living' for different regions as a contributor to the suggested wage disparity. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-08-03 02:02 |
| #2 Are they including military personnel in their average? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2017-08-03 01:38 |
| #1 And that's why they (and their kinds in your colleges) will fight to the death against "Trump's Revolution" |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-08-03 00:36 |