Number of federal workers earning six-figure salaries has exploded during recession

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The number of federal workers earning six-figure salaries has exploded during the recession, according to a USA TODAY analysis of federal salary data.
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.

Federal workers are enjoying an extraordinary boom time — in pay and hiring — during a recession that has cost 7.3 million jobs in the private sector.

The highest-paid federal employees are doing best of all on salary increases. Defense Department civilian employees earning $150,000 or more increased from 1,868 in December 2007 to 10,100 in June 2009, the most recent figure available.

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.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-12-10-federal-pay-salaries_N.htm

seriously...wtf....this must be watermarks wetdream...well after his krugman fantasy.....

 

[Billy the Great Khan]

The number of federal workers earning six-figure salaries has exploded during the recession, according to a USA TODAY analysis of federal salary data.
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.

Federal workers are enjoying an extraordinary boom time — in pay and hiring — during a recession that has cost 7.3 million jobs in the private sector.

The highest-paid federal employees are doing best of all on salary increases. Defense Department civilian employees earning $150,000 or more increased from 1,868 in December 2007 to 10,100 in June 2009, the most recent figure available.

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.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-12-10-federal-pay-salaries_N.htm

seriously...wtf....this must be watermarks wetdream...well after his krugman fantasy.....

What a shock.
/sarcasm.

 

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yeah and this will make you think.....who and when were those raises authorized?

 

[cawacko]

I don't know WTF Bush was thinking when he gave raises to federal employees in '08. At a certain point certain federal positions can make the argument that their private sector equivalents make large large amounts more and thus they need to be paid more to get someone to take the position. But f*ck if the government as a whole doesn't just keep growing and growing. So bad.

 

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I don't know WTF Bush was thinking when he gave raises to federal employees in '08. At a certain point certain federal positions can make the argument that their private sector equivalents make large large amounts more and thus they need to be paid more to get someone to take the position. But f*ck if the government as a whole doesn't just keep growing and growing. So bad.

you WIN!

 

[SmarterthanYou]

one would think that the majority of americans would get downright outraged and vote every single lawmaker out of office and throw in new bodies for the sole purpose of getting rid of COLA, but alas, most of them are still mere sheep.

 

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one would think that the majority of americans would get downright outraged and vote every single lawmaker out of office and throw in new bodies for the sole purpose of getting rid of COLA, but alas, most of them are still mere sheep.

you WIN!

 

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i didn't say it....but a good point:

The private sector provides the money to pay government salaries

 

[tinfoil]

where's watertard?

 

[Onceler]

I understand some of the outrage on this, particularly this year, but gov't work isn't always charity work, and - for the most part - qualified professionals take pay cuts to work in gov't.

It's not like gov't jobs these days are all bored bureaucrats pushing paper around, though there is that. The gov't employs people in a lot of highly qualified professions.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

Government employers already aren't paid nearly what they're worth. Politicans ignore them and everything else in order to push the next wildly unrealistic tax cut. Tax cuts in this country are out of control.

 

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Government employers already aren't paid nearly what they're worth. Politicans ignore them and everything else in order to push the next wildly unrealistic tax cut. Tax cuts in this country are out of control.

really....yet you think you know what private sector employees are worth

tax cuts create work watermark...unless you want to suck the government tit in its entirety

 

[Billy the Great Khan]

Government employers already aren't paid nearly what they're worth.

Didn't you just say something to the tune of no one needing to make that much money?

 

[TuTu Monroe]

Federal government employees live a good life with good pay and all the benefits anyone could ever want. The problem is, it's almost impossible to fire them and they know it.

What a shock.
/sarcasm.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

i didn't say it....but a good point:

The private sector provides the money to pay government salaries

Well that's true but in critical government positions do you want to pay $150,000/year and get Mark Warner or do you want to pay $20,000/year and get Watermark? The choice is yours.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

I wonder how many of the people here who are so hostile towards Government workers have ever had to work with any?

 

[cawacko]

I wonder how many of the people here who are so hostile towards Government workers have ever had to work with any?

Me! Me! Me!

One project specifically it was a 60-story residential tower at the base of the Bay Bridge. Had to work with the city of san francisco from the approval process up through its completion. Had to deal with the planning commission and board of supervisors. While we need a government structure in place it doesn't stop me from hating those slimy fucking crooked politicians and their aides. They were scum. Fuck them. We got our building up but they ass raped us because they could.

http://www.onerinconhill.com/

Please feel free to ask me how I really feel about them.

 

[cawacko]

I wonder how many of the people here who are so hostile towards Government workers have ever had to work with any?

I'll give you another example. I used to work in commercial real estate brokerage. Try doing a lease with the state or federal government. Unfucking real. The amount of time, waste and expense it takes to complete a lease with the government vs. a regular company is astronomical. The amount of hoops and beaucracy you must deal with to get a simple deal done blows your mind. I don't care if you are a commnist and think government is the greatest thing in the world anybody with a modicum of rational reasoning ability would look at how the government operates in this situation and shake your head in concern.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

Well, I don't respond by thinking "clearly this means we should eliminate the government", I respond by asking why the government doesn't hire the people in the private sector to tell them how to keep the bureaucracy to a minimum? Government just isn't fluid enough, and I believe it's possible to fix that.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

Me! Me! Me!

One project specifically it was a 60-story residential tower at the base of the Bay Bridge. Had to work with the city of san francisco from the approval process up through its completion. Had to deal with the planning commission and board of supervisors. While we need a government structure in place it doesn't stop me from hating those slimy fucking crooked politicians and their aides. They were scum. Fuck them. We got our building up but they ass raped us because they could.

http://www.onerinconhill.com/

Please feel free to ask me how I really feel about them.

Well for one thing you were working with liberals.