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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 $100000 or more jumped from 14 percent to 19 percent of civil servants during the recessions first 18 months -- and thats 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 says USA TODAY:
- Defense Department civilian employees earning $150000 or more increased from 1868 in December 2007 to 10100 in June 2009 the most recent figure available.
- When the recession started the Transportation Department had only one person earning a salary of $170000 or more; 18 months later 1690 employees had salaries above $170000.
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.
The growth in six-figure salaries has pushed the average federal workers pay to $71206 compared with $40331 in the private sector.
Theres no way to justify this to the American people. Its ridiculous says Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) a first-term lawmaker who is on the Houses federal workforce subcommittee.
Source: Dennis Cauchon For feds more get 6-figure salaries USA Today December 10 2009.
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-12-10-federal-pay-salaries_N.htm
