Re: YUPPIE PARADISE ! ! ! Federal Workers Enjoy Unprecedented Salaries as Most of the Country Eats Shit

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On Dec 12, 6:37 am, climber <coledenk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 11, 6:28 pm, Mack the Knife <bulldog101...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > For feds, more get 6-figure salaries
> > Average pay $30,000 over private sector
> > By Dennis Cauchon
> > USA TODAY
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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.
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> > 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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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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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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> > The trend to six-figure salaries is occurring throughout the federal
> > government, in agencies big and small, high-tech and low-tech. The
> > primary cause: substantial pay raises and new salary rules.
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> > "There's no way to justify this to the American people. It's
> > ridiculous," says Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, a first-term lawmaker
> > who is on the House's federal workforce subcommittee.
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> > 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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> > USA TODAY analyzed the Office of Personnel Management's database that
> > tracks salaries of more than 2 million federal workers. Excluded from
> > OPM's data: the White House, Congress, the Postal Service,
> > intelligence agencies and uniformed military personnel.
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> > The growth in six-figure salaries has pushed the average federal
> > worker's pay to $71,206, compared with $40,331 in the private sector.
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> > Key reasons for the boom in six-figure salaries:
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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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> > •New pay system. Congress created a new National Security Personnel
> > System for the Defense Department to reward merit, in addition to the
> > across-the-board increases. The merit raises, which started in January
> > 2008, were larger than expected and rewarded high-ranking employees.
> > In October, Congress voted to end the new pay scale by 2012.
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> > •Pay caps eased. Many top civil servants are prohibited from making
> > more than an agency's leader. But if Congress lifts the boss' salary,
> > others get raises, too. When the Federal Aviation Administration
> > chief's salary rose, nearly 1,700 employees' had their salaries lifted
> > above $170,000, too.
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> Five years ago I was visiting near Baltimore,MD. A few miles out of
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> is the hgtrs. of the Social Security Administration. It was near
> quitting time. Then all of the sudden it looked like chocolate was
> flowing
> out the doors. It was a horde of mostly very overweight Black females!
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> cole
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