Report: 19 Percent of Federal Employees Earning Six Figures

USA Today: 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.

December 11, 2009 at 4:49 pm - Fox News
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H2K   December 11th, 2009 - 2:22 pm

It’s the only job sector that is growing.

But Obama is not a socialist? Right!!!!!

watchful   December 11th, 2009 - 2:49 pm

Yes…and the dirty little secret that all the major municipal city government around the Country don’t want you knowing, is the huge numbers of Administrators, Directors, Managers, and Police officers and Detectives, etc, etc, who are pulling in six figures too. There needs to be a major investigation of how ALL U.S. governments agencies, local, county, State, and Federal, are more concerned about preserving their annual budgets in the name of protecting and growing their own jobs, instead of doing what is in the best interest of the tax payers and veterans. Keep drumming this story…the private-sector citizens should be outraged about this.

Diagnosis:   December 11th, 2009 - 5:00 pm

The tick has become larger than the dog.

Checkers   December 11th, 2009 - 5:08 pm

Must be the heafty salaries of those unvetted secret Obama Czars boosting this average way up.

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demdicks   December 11th, 2009 - 5:24 pm

I would support an executive order by President PALIN to immediately terminate all government pensions and benefits. To fire every non-essential position (nearly all of them) and force them to reapply for their jobs at greatly reduced pay and benefit packages, this will virtually eliminate the deficit and bring these haughty libs back down to earth. Also, ALL tenure abolished.

Rexter   December 11th, 2009 - 5:25 pm

Thanks in part to that dumb leftist Bush and that charlatan Reagan. Both of them created Federal bureaucracies!

Rexter   December 11th, 2009 - 5:28 pm

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0301.green.html

“…..And Reagan himself made known his desire to eliminate the departments of Energy and Education, and to scale back what his first budget director David Stockman called the “closet socialism” of Social Security and Medicaid.

But after his initial victories on tax cuts and defense, the revolution effectively stalled. Deficits started to balloon, the recession soon deepened, his party lost ground in the 1982 midterms, and thereafter Reagan never seriously tried to enact the radical domestic agenda he’d campaigned on. Rather than abolish the departments of Energy and Education, as he had promised to do if elected president, Reagan added a new cabinet-level department–one of the largest federal agencies–the Department of Veterans Affairs. ……”

If   December 11th, 2009 - 6:01 pm

impeach now.

SanFranciscoGo   December 11th, 2009 - 6:11 pm

We are supposed to be the “boss”, let’s give our government “employees” a “salary cut”.

How about a nice part-time government (actually right now a lot of them work less
than part-time anyway)with part-time pay then the congress folks can stay at home 3/4 of the time and work real jobs.

Nathan Greenman   December 11th, 2009 - 6:33 pm

THIS IS DISGUSTING….High ranking govornment officials of all types were recently begging us to go along with the stimulus or teachers and policemen would lose their jobs….all the while giving themselves raises and promotions. How dumb do they think we are?

AmericanWoman   December 11th, 2009 - 7:05 pm

They have THEIR set of rules and we have ours….apparently what is good for the goose (taxpayers) is NOT good for the gander (government).

What a bunch of hypocrits!!!

VOTE THEM ALL OUT!!!

Larse   December 11th, 2009 - 7:36 pm

I have earned more than those six numbers for about 60% of my professional life now. But really, I am not qualified to hold many many government jobs… It really takes the best of the best and those that can stand working for the government ;)

No real big deal here at all.

It’s America after all. If you can earn it, do it…

Government pay has been lagging for a very long time. But now that we really need good people to clean up after the bush years, it is well worth it.

Arkyump   December 11th, 2009 - 8:55 pm

Well hell, it takes a lot of pinheads to run the government. Give them a break.

R from ID   December 11th, 2009 - 8:58 pm

Well, there is definitely many of us in the wrong “business”.

elder   December 11th, 2009 - 10:35 pm

Once they pass this health bill more government jobs. This will collapse under its own weight and the U.S.A. will be a third rate country with a bunch of politicos still collecting a check, shameful.

Vernis Magnetic   December 11th, 2009 - 10:58 pm

I think a whole bunch of well paid federal employees are going to soon learn what is meant by “you can’t squeeze blood from a turnip.”

O'Really?   December 12th, 2009 - 9:56 am

Hey, stupid people, almost all of the Federal workers are not voted into their jobs. They are analysts, clerks, businessmen and women, accountants, scientists, physicists, mechanics, police officers, and so forth just like the rest of the nation’s work force. They also bust their butts to get the nation’s business done and protect us. Military personnel are also Federal workers. You right wing loons seem to like them…or do you?

anne can   December 12th, 2009 - 7:26 pm

DOES THE PAY CZAR KNOW ABOUT THIS?

SanFranciscoGo   December 13th, 2009 - 1:14 pm

Liberals are called liberals because they are liberal all right – with your money, they don’t care how Your money is spent.

The fact here, is not that people shouldn’t get paid what they deserve, the fact is is that the folks in the US
making a 6 figure income is about 7%(that figure includes government employees making 6 figures). The folks in
the government only, making a 6 figure income is about 19%.

The government wages are disproportionally high compared to the general population which should make anyone
with “skin in the game”, wonder why. Although, every American knows that in general our government tends to
over pay for everything and folks that don’t know or acknowledge that, Are’Really the stupid ones.

O'Really?   December 14th, 2009 - 9:02 am

Speaking of stupid…SanFranciscoGo never can quite get all of his facts straight. If all these Federal Workers were overpaid, smart guy, then why is it that they keep quitting to move to the “private sector” to get more money? The main reason that they stay is the retirement benefits which are good but that is often not enough to offset the difference in wages.

SanFranciscoGo   December 14th, 2009 - 11:27 am

Are’Really Stupid – you have no idea what you are talking about, as usual. You could probably be a decent person,
but you can’t control your misdirected and unnecessary anger, causing you over generalize -wWhich is surprising since you are the smartest person in this forum.

SanFranciscoGo   December 14th, 2009 - 11:38 am

make that – “to over generalize, which is surprising since you are the “smartest” and most “accurate” person in this forum.*
*(disclaimer to Are’Really Stupid – this is a sarcastic statement, in response to your clever sarcastic statement).

Alex deLarge   February 5th, 2010 - 3:06 pm

G Bush over saw the the largest expansion of the federal government since LBJ(The Economist) and brought the national debt to 6 trillion(The Heritage Foundation).

GDP = Consumption + Investment + GOVERNMENT SPENDING + (Exports – Imports)

John Mills said it best.
“Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.”

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