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| Author: | Uncle Fester [ Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | I want to be a Government worker! |
http://biggovernment.com/vderugy/2010/0 ... more-85998 Quote: Study this USA Today chart and cry:
http://reason.com/assets/mc/kmw/2010_03/jobs.png According to USA Today: “Overall, federal workers earned an average salary of $67,691 in 2008 for occupations that exist both in government and the private sector, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. The average pay for the same mix of jobs in the private sector was $60,046 in 2008, the most recent data available.” And let’s just add insult to injury: “These salary figures do not include the value of health, pension and other benefits, which averaged $40,785 per federal employee in 2008 vs. $9,882 per private worker, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.” So now when you put your kids to bed and they tell you that when they grow up they want to be a doctor and a veterinarian, your answer should be: “Honey, these are all great choices, but what you really want to be is a bureaucrat.” Here and here are more arguments to convince your little ones. |
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| Author: | Taskiss [ Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:14 pm ] |
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See now, I have no problems with those numbers - an overall average difference of about $7,500.00. They used "average" pays as comparisons for both the federal and private companies and doesn't single out specific job titles in the article. In the enclosed table there are job titles ... but I'd also argue that job titles in the private sector are not as strictly defined as the definitions the government uses. Looking further, the job title "computer support specialist" seems to fall in this category...and the private sector uses the name "engineer" in job titles with no requirement for an actual degree and my experience with the government has been that a degree is needed... but I'm not sure if that's universally true. This table looks like the same table in the previous thread. I also believe the federal government is not your average employer. In the tech fields, it compares most closely to larger companies like Boeing, IBM, etc. In that, I'd bet larger companies (fortune 100 types) - on average - pay better than the federal government. Where they quote benefits, I believe those are due to average age/experience differences. Overall, more hype, no substance. It does seem that this article doesn't makes make more out of it than it is, but drawing a comparison between government employees and employees of the "average" company is still disingenuous. |
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