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Spot The Average Federal Employee Salary
Moments ago Barack Obama announced the hike of the minimum wage of workers under federal contracts from $7.25 to $10.10. Which got us thinking: just how disenfranchised really are Federal workers in the US?
On the chart below, try to guess, without peeking, which is the average salary of a Federal worker in the US and which is the average per capita income for all Americans.
What about on a median basis? Well, to answer that we go back to our chart of the day from December 3 "Chart Of The Day: What's Bad For America Is Good For... Washington, D.C." which while not providing Federal Worker data, has the median income for a resident of DC versus that of the average American.
Source: Office of Personnel Management, Bureau of Business and Economic Research, UNM
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We have a saying in medicine.... when the parasitic burden on the host gets too high, the host either dies, or the parasites starve to death.
About now, the parasitic load is reaching its maximum..................
I'm glad that the people in DC are well paid. After all, they take care of us, right?
Leeches bleeding the host:
Federal "Workers" (unionized, of course) are less educated than yet make twice their private sector counterparts* (mainly living in D.C., Maryland & Virginia), with many of them making $200,000 or more.
(As it stands now, 1 out of every 6.7 Americans - or 21,000,000 - with a full time job - NOT INCLUDING MILITARY FORCES OR MILLIONS OF GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS (that's known as "cooking the books") - is employed by either a taxpayer-funded federal, state or local unit of government - FORWARD!)
#WinningTheFuture
#Hope&Change
#PopSomeTags
*Federal Workers Earn Double Their Private Counterparts
www.usatoday.com/.../2010-08-10-1Afedpay10_ST_N.htm...?USA Today
The key is unions - private labor needs to get unionized and once that happens salaries will go up. This isnt a Federal gov't consipracy to overpay Fed workers (bankers on the other hand are different) but its a result of unionization which is dominant in the Federal gov't.
Private labor needs to get organized and unionized and wages will go up (and corporate profits down) - lets not get distracted from the real issue.
Hey with the exec order raising the min wage now in the books, and the Senate just blew out the debt ceiling worry, now we can raise everyone's taxpayer funded pay to a million per year. What a country I love it!!
Grr hiss moan federal employees are evil blah blah blah
...but don't look over here:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7ZSZtLy-UXw/Uh5qowKmEKI/AAAAAAAAAB4/FYPEyelz9H...
http://go.bloomberg.com/market-now/files/2013/12/TheGreatRetrenchment.png
Obama's illegal order today should have been that all federal employees "only" recieve $10/hr
Those consumer confidence numbers must be using surveys taken strictly from the District of Columbia...no wonder they are so fuckin happy for getting paid a lot for doing little.
ZH had a chart of "economic confidence" by regions and D.C. was either the sole or one of two geographic areas in the U.S. with a positive reading.
#Winning
#GiveEveryoneGovernmentJobs (These Are Called Banana Republics)
I'm starting a new political party (the "Basic Common Sense Party") whose only platform is to cut 50% of Federal employees and 35% of state and local employees, while barring unionization of any government employees.
I promise that by introducing the efficiencies used in the private sector, not only will taxpayers not be worse off in terms of "levels of services," but they'll see a 5 fold improvement in "levels of satisfactory services," while saving 1.7 trillion USD per year.
Fuck the DC
Who needs race wars when you got this and the FSA going on. ..
Wait till the FSA sees this chart
lol @ that chart... Taxes well spent! :D
The chart understates the disparity, and by so significant an amount that I believe it to be intentionally deceptive:
That $42kA? That includes all these .gov fucks. Cops, teachers, administrators, inspectors, and on and on and on and on and fucking on. And they are all, to a one, grotesquely overpaid, underworked, officious, and useless.
Take those salaries out of the mix and tell me what the average is. Oh, wait. You don't have to. Turns out (I'm pulling these numbers out of my ass based on something posted here a month or three ago) that the bottom 65% of workers make $25k or so.
Hm.
it reminds me of a recent article, the author was trying to demonstrate how Greeks are richer than Germans, because they dont pay taxes etc ... it ommited to ever mention in the article what the salaries were in each country ... dahhh the most obvious correct?
same here, if it was this obvious why the best and the brightest go to the private sector???
mass media is a game on its own ... we need another Raagan back to fix this thing!!!
what about the executive order by-passing congress. no latex, no lube...
Is that just salary? Or total compensation? I'm sure they have the mother load of golden fringe benefits too.
They do. For example they'll all probably get a free vacation day tomorrow because of snow.
I think the data is base salary only. Not benefits. With benefits, it would be a 6 figure number.
It has to be salary only.
The number with benefits is well over $100,000, but the pensions are so massive it's not easy to calculate.
Some ecen get exhorbitant bonuses. IRS comrades did.
I am realling digging your commentary of late Shad_ow. The comrades of government in Russia got fucked in end the too just like ours will. It will be the USSA politibureau that walk away with the loot, at least 70% of them if we continue following the Soviet model and history rythmes for us. Those Fed employees probably feel so bright and superior for putting in that true workweek of 20 hours of focus. Chuckles knowing most families kids will piss it all away the next generation but its a short laugh and little comfort in the real world right now. I tell you as an analyst that has been correct since 2007 and can prove it about economics and geopolitics that if WW3 ignites and 1/3 die EVERY one of the politicians in the last decade at the federal level die too. A shame these folk dont really get it.
Thank you Tylers. Everyone with a real job should know this.
Perfect! Can we now break down aggregate FEDERAL EMPLOYEE rolls [by tribe]?... You know ~ so as to get an idea as to 'WHO' demographically, is a FEDERAL EMPLOYEE [vs. 'their own' representative base aggregates]?... Put a FACE on it [so to speak]...
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It would just be an exercise in FACTUAL math & statistics, [so NOBODY should be upset by this simple request]... Unless ~ of course...
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Edit: I guess the answer to that, [in 'present day' ZH terms ~ whereby fonestar is KING &, irreverantly, pisses on 'Cheeky Bastard's' grave at will]... is 'NO'...
No ~ No we CAN'T endeavor to break down FEDERAL EMPLOYEE rolls [by tribe]...
Evidently ~ this is not something one needs to know, [NOR ~ be interested in]... Move along... Nothing to see here...
BTW ~ where has hedgeless_horseman been lately?
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Hey sheep... Over HERE [on the other thread], I made a 'funny']... FIGHT CLUB 102: = 'Cheers with a Bloomberg Terminal where you get tickled to DEATH'...
Francis? Francis_Sawyer?
Or slewie. Although with all the ~'s it is most likely francis.
Then again I always thought they were the same person.
Stick to the facts...
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What's the 'harm' in looking in to the demographics of my comment?
It couldn't POSSIBLY be harmful [to ANYONE]?... Could it?... It could only point towards TRUTH... Last time I checked, TRUTH wasn't bad [or, am I wrong]?...
We should get together for a fondue, Anal By Irish
you're new here, so you shall be forgiven for confusing and being confused wrt demographics as in the federal gov't (i.e. obummer's relatives) as opposed to the federal reserve (i.e. relatives of rothschild and other foreign or dual citizenship nationals).
Statistics 101: correlation is not causation.
Statistics 101: correlation is not causation
You couldn't even get the wording correct. Correlation does not imply causation - a big difference.
Here's some more chart porn for you:
http://sayanythingblog.com/files/2013/10/o-CEPRUNIONIZATIONRATE19482012-...
http://www.npr.org/news/graphics/2010/09/gr-union-membership-300.gif
Fuck that. Let's demolish the treasonous public sector unions and outsource most of these permanent job time serving shitheads. We could always start by banning them from giving money to political candidates, right out of th gate. Disenfranchising the permajob people left over would make sense.
where do you think salaries come from?
Trees?
not even fucking /sarc off flag would fix this clueless comment
My Gang Is Better Than Your Gang
GO GANGS!
Re: lets not get distracted from the real issue.
The real issue is that "conservative" (in quotes) like the top 10% (the winners who deserve to win) much more than the bottom 70% (the worthless losers who lost because they are lazy bastards - and "those people", of course).
It's about everybody knowning their place as defined by the top 10%.
you mean like banksters with the "law" on their side raping you, your daughter and wife up the ass to show you where your place is? as defined by them? i.e. the likes of bernanke, yellen, greenspan, fisher, rothschild, konheim, blankfein, etc? you know; them?
members of the mob tend/tended to be less educated than the rest of the working class too. many gangbangers are drop outs.
No Difference. Just because the people are "unionized", have a bunch of "laws" that supposedly make there jobs exist and therefore legitimate, and get their compensation in formal payroll checks rather than brown paper bags of cash or suitcases full of benjamins, it does not make their toli anything more or less than what it is. And that is criminal behavior and acts in the service of a criminal entity The United States Federal Government.
Each and every one of them should be fired, in some cases prosecuted for their actions and stripped of any and all benefits, pensions, and the like. No exceptions.
Perhaps onec deposited in the real world of the producer class they might actually do something of merit or GASP! productive. I look around and see loads of things that need doin'.
As someone onec said: country'll grow.
Buying Votes 101
Instructor: G Soros
Location: Center for American Progress
In an economy governed under a socialist doctrine, government jobs are always where you will find most of the higher paying jobs.
"I'm glad that the people in DC are well paid. After all, they take care of us, right?"
No, they are just more equal than the rest of us.
Well if we'd just raise the minimum wage all would be equal. (yes I am being sarcastic)
Well past maximum, actually. The host is already dead, the vital signs are coming from a simulator hidden behind the patient.
Yep. Now it's just about looting the body.
Probably a wedding ring and some fillings in there. And hey, we can sell the organs to the Chinese...
While I'd like to believe that, I'm guessing we've still got a long ways to go before these parasites succumb.
How long were the Dark Ages again?
The host dies.
The parasite dies.
I think the parasites in the top 10% keep living.
Who is worse, the Federal workers or the top 10% who own 90% of the nation?
A lot of federal workers are in the top 10% of wages....
I mean, by the way, that one or the other does in fact die, in which case either the host alone lives or both die.
And yes, I believe that the host will prevail and that the parasite — the state — will become extinct.
Beginning with the American state, which I firmly believe will not survive the decade intact, if at all.
its about time the peasantry respected their masters /s
Its amazing the states have allowed this to go on as long as it has. Presumably thats what "Homeland Security" is all about-institutionalizng DC's "rule"
the Fucking TSA people make me sick. i've worked a bunch of security jobs and i can tell you the job they are performing should be done by private secrity for MUCH MUCH LESS..
GoldSilverDoc said: "We have a saying in medicine.... when the parasitic burden on the host gets too high, the host either dies, or the parasites starve to death."
Indeed. The same applies to any system and fraud. All systems can handle some % of fraud, but when the fraud becomes to large and onerous the system collapses. Which is where imho we are at with the world financial system. I believe this is the primary reason why we'll have a financial meltdown. Unprecedented fraud on a global level at unimaginable levels.
The poster child for this fraud is the derivatives market.
RH bar is titled wrong. Should read "Average employee wages / salaries" not per capita. See here: http://www.socialsecurity.gov/cgi-bin/netcomp.cgi?year=2012
I can't read this. Hurts too much.
If you think their salary hurts, you ought to see their actual number of hours worked per week. If you are thinking 40, you are thinking way too high...
hell they even get paid when the government shuts down!
Good point, FnB...probably more outrageous than the fucking pay raise.
Look at the spread in the Clinton years. Ironic, no?
hookers and blow were cheaper back then so there was a wealth suppression in DC during that time.
Ahhh...the good ole days when our leader was getting a hummer in the oral office.
Maybe, Oprah can bring back the tradition.
Its only going to get worse...we can never cut a government employees salary...never...but a politician makes donations if they give out a raise...so guess what happens...wage and salalry creep.....at some point it all breaks...when the rest of the world does not want out dollars anymore...when we just print to keep the sheeple from the streets...
we can never cut a government employees salary...never
It will happen one day, the Chinese will demand it and it will be done
The Chinese can't do shit with the US military.. They will be smart to write off the debt!
the threat to dump t-bills might nullify the military and the crooks in us goverment power. They allready beat our president in Syria without a shot, the trend is going to continue
What threat to dump T-Bills?
If the Chinese ever started dumping T-Bills on the market,
the Fed would just vacuum them right up.
cntl-P
yes, but the fed does not have slave labour to produce our products
You're right. They'll just print $$$ and enter contracts with all of the private for-profit prison systems in the US to provide labor.
Bring those factories back home .... and install them in the prisons.
out damned spot, out I say
Porsche needs to build mega sized vehicles for all the fat ass US federal workers. Yes, Latisha I'm looking at you and your fat keester.
How many federal employees and especially federal employees in DC are black? Fuck you if you don't like the question. I am going there!
We have long surpassed South Africa with our labor laws and post Apartheid Affirmative Action crap.
Put it this way, WHITES MAKE UP A LOT LESS THAN 50%.
Why are racists such morons? It must be genetic.
OPM has released its annual report on federal workforce demographics, once again showing that Hispanics are the only minority group under-represented in federal employment in comparison with their share of the overall workforce, 8 percent vs. 13.6 percent. Women are also slightly under-represented, 43.6 to 46 percent. Following are highlights of the report.
The Federal workforce is 17.8 percent Black, 8.1 percent Hispanic, 5.6 percent Asian/Pacific Islander, 1.7 percent Native American, 0.8 percent non-Hispanic/Multi-racial, and 66.0 percent White. Minorities as a whole constituted 34.1 percent of the Federal workforce. Men comprised 56.1 percent of all Federal permanent employees and women 43.9 percent.
Now, what percentage of the patrotic leaches running scams on Big-Ag, Big-MIC, Big-Road, Big-Water, Big-Airport, Big-Energy, Big-Ed, Big-House, Big-Fin, Big-OldFart, Big-OldFartHealthcare, Big-AntiDrug, & Big-PoliceState are white?
Nobody said they were racist. You're making shit up out of thin air. Please tell how far left you claim.
Please don't feed the troll.
I usually don't. No way I was going to sit idle while he was trying to make it seem like the 2 posters above were racist. They made a comment which is the truth. There is nothing racist about their statements. Sometimes the truth hurts.
You guys really are idiots. He posted statistics that clearly show your heads are waaaay up your asses. And you call him a troll. YOU guys are the fucking trolls. Can you read? Or are you THAT blinded by hate? Pathetic...
Depends on agency. I barely saw an blacks in Langley. They fill the support staff in other facilities.
Just don't ask about the Post Office or TSA.
Very Obama-esque: appear to do something, when you're really doing nothing.
Is ending rule of law in the USA forever "nothing"?
Federal 'worker'...... Lol... Finding a federal worker is like finding a person who is almost pregnant.
Fed's true Dual Role: 1. Get entire world to use the fiat-Dollar (debt-obligations-out-of-thin air). Then distribute said fiat Dollars unevenly, to allow for max wealth transfer from 99% to 1% and from 1% to 0.01%.
2. Play Currency Games or Wars, to squash ANY rival or threat, and to preserve the Big Game for its Beneficiaries.
Gee, the things they still don't teach you in Biz or CPA schools, but teach you at select schools, if Chosen!
kosher?
Miners posting an OKR today. Down, down, down.
Mind you the "average" numbers are actually raised by the federal asshole bloodsuckers, so if you back them out you probably drop the average by about $3k per year, or so.
Nice, but of course, most of the "workers" in DC are consulting/management/contrator/lobbyist parasites which accounts for the disparity.
Ya see, the ObamaPhone bottom 20% loser is NOT EQUAL TO the top 10% winner, many of whom got rich looting Big-Ag, Big-MIC, Big-Road, Big-Water, Big-Airport, Big-Energy, Big-Ed, Big-House, Big-Fin, Big-OldFart, Big-OldFartHealthcare, Big-AntiDrug, & Big-PoliceState.
Senior management screws the stockholders.
Middle management screws the customers.
Lower management screws the workers.
Unions screw management.
Which of the 4 lines (above) is part of the top 10% and which isn't?
""The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"
no wonder...
The Federal Government is the only place where Obama's plan to raise pay rates and maintain the same aggregate workforce numbers is possible. Faced with a nearly 50% rise in wages most private sector employers would either be investing in automation and/or reducing head count to bring costs back in line with revenue.
Does the average control for the skill level needed and skill concentration of federal workers? Pretty sure Federal employees are not a representative sample of all jobs out there - no retailers, no fast food, no construction, etc at the federal level. There are also no jobs that pay over whatever the prez is making so no CEO/ Wall St. level comp there either. I get it that they might be overpaid, but a simple average is very misleading when a rigourous analysis is needed.
It won't be pay that brings it all down. It will be the pensions, healthcare, etc. The promises.
Bull shit.
The overwhelming number of government drones are overpaid file clerks,
or obscenely overpaid rent-a-cops.
The pensions are really huge for many. Guess who pays for those?
They proclaim they deserve to make more than the private sector because their special.
Same people paying for the parasites living off of: Big-Ag, Big-MIC, Big-Road, Big-Water, Big-Airport, Big-Energy, Big-Ed, Big-House, Big-Fin, Big-OldFart, Big-OldFartHealthcare, Big-AntiDrug, & Big-PoliceState.
Life is about running scams on dumbasses. Who's the dumbass here? The Federal workers or the dumbasses bitching about them?
It's just like those bitching about the top 10% owning 90% of the nation. There are winners and dumbasses. That's what survival-of-the-fittests is about, finding the dumbasses and laughing at them.
Disclaimer: happily living off my TBTF scam. Go find your own scam if you don't like Merica so much, love it or leave it hippy.
Let me rephrase this for you:
There's lot of thieves. No one is catching them, so they're making out like, well, bandits.
If you're not a bandit, and you're bitching about bandits, you're a dumbass.
The solution is to find your own way to steal from others, and then you too can be a bandit.
Self respect is for losers. Morality is for losers, Integrity is for losers.
Remind me not to cry if the bullets hit you first.
I know I'm going to get blasted for this, but this isn't really a fair comparison. Federal workers are much better educated than the typical US worker. It would be better to compare them to those with college degrees.
I'm not saying they're not worthless do nothing employees. Just saying the vast majoity are college grads.
It would be better to compare them to parking attendants, except that anyone with a real job has more responsability, no job security, and maybe five percent of the benefits.
Federal workers are much better educated than the typical US worker.
if this is true, then it also most likely that Federal worker drones also have a much higher student loan balance than the typical US worker drone.
if so, would it be safe to say that what the chart above is showing is an ongoing Federal bailout of higher education?
I'm sure you'll be thrilled to learn about this program, which--for all practical purposes--forgives up to $60k of a Federal employee's student loans.
http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/student-loan-repayment/
get my father in law to tell you about the retards he came in contact with at HUD.
FEDERAL workers are much better at doing little to nothing useful.
Have you seen the average college grad lately? Being a college grad means jack shit these days.
I'd like to share a revelation that I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your government, and I realised that government employees are not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment; but your government employees do not. Instead they multiply, and multiply, until every resource is consumed. The only way for them to survive is to spread to another area.
There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern... A virus. Governments are a disease, a cancer on this planet, it is a plague, and we... Are the cure.
Life is about the smart-n-savvy peopel running scams on dumbasses?
Whose kids are going to go to the best schools and actually run this great-n-glorious "democracy" in the next 30 years?
The trash population in the bottom 70%? Or the nobility in the top 10%?
Bonus question: Which category to Federal Workers fall into?
Bonus question answer: bottom 70%.
How do I know this? Because on campus recruiting at Ivy League or peer schools in top 25 is dominated by banks, consultancies, and silicon valley...not federal gov agencies.
No undergrad is turning down a Goldman or McKinsey offer for a regular gs-7/9 job at Treasury.
I'm not counting jobs in the federal gov where there's a large chance for networking but basic civil servant jobs.
CIA and NASA are the very few exceptions due to unique mission and opportunities that make up for the relative pay discrepancy compared to private sector.
More Federal workers would be in the top 10% of wages (if including benefits) than the group of federal workers in the bottom 70%.
The 20% sandwich meat in the middle?
Buying loyalty, transfering wealth to their "peeps", enriching others because they can...
I'd like to share a revelation that I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your government, and I realised that government employees are not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment; but your government employees do not. Instead they multiply, and multiply, until every resource is consumed. The only way for them to survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern... A virus. Government employees are a disease, a cancer on this planet, they are a plague, and we... Are the cure.
Does that include the leaches in the manly socialist scams that "conservatives" seem to regularly turn a blind eye to, like: Big-Ag, Big-MIC, Big-Road, Big-Water, Big-Airport, Big-House, Big-Fin, Big-OldFart, Big-OldFartHealthcare, Big-AntiDrug, & Big-PoliceState.
Or does that just apply to girly-man socialism?
Big MIC? Is that Rosie O'Donnell?
So, my single neighbor the USPS mailman, who lives alone earns $76k. I earn $100k but have 3 young children and a wife who stays home and raises them.
By the logic of this article, my neighbor's federal worker househole income is a lavish 76k, while my household's per capita income is a trifling 25k?
Sorry - this article is crap.
When I was young we used to define a third world country as one where the general population thought the best job was as a government employee. Oh how far we have fallen!
As a federal law enforcement agent I'm calling bullshit on your article. My pay has been cut by 7% in the past year and I'm looking at a 25% this year. Ive had my cost of living increased one time in the past three years by 1%, total.
The federal government hires a ton of medical doctors, engineers and other scientists. You have pay them well, even though they are still being paid less than what they would make in the private sector. If I was a detective for the local sheriffs department here in southern California I would be paid much better than what I get from the federal government.
Your article is simple minded bullshit. The devil is always in the details and that is why I read zh because you guys like to go into the details but in this case you are no better than the local news. Weak sauce ZH.
And what is your salary?
make-work example 1a. why don't you become a dick for the local sheriffs dept if they pay better?
I'm guessing becuase the benefits, training, or opportunities to rise are richer by staying with the feds. Which specific agency are you with? FBI? ATF? DEA?
would your job even exist without the massive expansion of FLEO's in the past 10 years?
Re: The federal government hires a ton of medical doctors, engineers and other scientists.
Come-on, this is ZH. Everybody knows (here) that 90% of Federal Employees are "those people". And, worse, 90% of the Federal budget is given directly to "those people".
You aren't one of "those people", are you?
Fuck off you little cum-guzzling parasite.
No sympathy from me. I hope they reduce all fed worker incomes by 100%.
And by your handle I'm guessing you work for the U.S. Border patrol. Why does my neighborhood look like downtown Juarez?
FUCK YOU.
"Average Fed Wage" is a not the best measure, as if you were to see the demographics of the Pay Grade Scale, it is highly skewed to the higher Pay Grades, who would not see the pay raise. Thus this is not a "fair" comparisonl.
A median wage may be better, or simply the actual count of how many minimum wage jobs would be impacted.
Median Federal wage: $74,714
EVEN THE Janitors make 100,000 in the DC Virginia area. Its Nuts.
Yeah.
But you have to feel sorry for the federal workers cuz they're working nearly 8000 hours per year at minimum graft.
Oh, wait...
FORWARD!
Add to this insult, the fact that they can't be fired for incompetence. Indeed, they could kill their mother live on nationwide TV on Friday and be back on the job on Monday....
no one gets fired unless they tweet someting un-PC
you guys are forgetting also the benefit of holding a clearance. At some agencies, even the janitor will be ts/sci w/ full scope polyl cleared. Clearances are a massive federal labor force protection/ labor market distortion that helps jack up gov leech (employee or contractor) wages.
So when cunts like the fed leo that commented on this thread cry about the opening post, that's another reason why they stay. because leaving the feds for the private sector that isn't gov aligned would mean losing their clearance and the ability to automaticallly command higher wages (not based on skills but based on a protective credential bestowed upon them by the gov).
From Civil Servants to Civil Masters
Apples and oranges. Median age, experience, and education levels are dramatically different between these two salary numbers.
http://www.factcheck.org/2012/02/cbo-offers-its-two-cents-on-federal-pay/
er.. US per capita income is income for everyone, working or not. So it includes babies, convicts, welfare moms, and retirees. No wonder the Fed employee looks so good!
How about a real comparison between people working in the non-gov sector (not military, police, education, government, firemen, etc.) and people who do work in gov? That might be truthful and accurate and interesting, instead of this bogus comparison, which makes as much sense as comparing average age of all people born since 1900, living or dead.
6 of the 10 wealthiest counties in the country are locak DC...yeah, I guess the poor .gov employee really is underpaid
We US taxpayers are a generous lot...
bought my house in NW chicago suburb in 1998 for 168 k on zillow today worth 168 k. I have been paying property taxes and insurance for 15 years as rent. That doesnt include new roof. New pool liner etc. Mother in law bought a home in a DC suburb in 2000 for 198 k today on zillow worth 480k. The DC east Virginia area of the country is gangbusters with our tax dollars. What will it take for us to quit paying 7k a year on a 168k house? I don't know cause I still do. Maybe we all just rent but don't landlords pay property taxes? Taxation without representation started a new country once, maybe that as a battle cry could start a new country yet again. Just thinkin out loud which in today's world can get you in trouble,,,,,,,
Aren't we comparing apples and oranges? Wouldn't the per capita income of a family of two with one federal employee be $39,233?
I'm not saying it's the best solution in the long run, but a guillotine on the National Mall would be fucking awesome.