Posted on 06/01/2011 8:09:08 AM PDT by yoe
More than 77,000 federal government employees throughout the country — including computer operators, more than 5,000 air traffic controllers, 22 librarians and one interior designer — earned more than the governors of the states in which they work.
The findings, from a Congressional Research Service report requested by Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, were released at a time when public workers’ salaries and benefits are under scrutiny across the country as governments try to streamline.
CRS reviewed 2009 salary figures, the most recent available, and found 77,057 employees who earned more in annual pay than their respective governors. Of those workers, 18,351 were doctors — the highest percentage. The second-highest total was for 5,170 air traffic controllers — likely both front-line controllers and their supervisors.
In Maryland, 7,283 federal employees — about 7 percent of all full-time federal employees in the state — earned more than Gov. Martin O'Malley’s $150,000 salary. Maryland was topped by Colorado, which in 2009 had 10,875 employees who made more than the $90,000 salary of the governor, Bill Ritter.
“Across America, governors are being asked to do more with less, often at lower pay than federal employees in their states. The pay gap between governors and federal employees should prompt Congress to take a closer look at federal salaries,” Mr. Coburn said. “With our debt and deficits spiraling out of control, now is the time to ask agencies — not just governors — to do more with less.”
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the only way to expose this stuff is hearings.. hearings hearings hearings!
How about we just fire every other one of them except for the ATC’s and see if anyone notices.
How long as the governor been at the job? (not long). How much would a governor make on the outside? (not as much as a specific computer programer). At least the computer people could make a ton of money on the outside with their skills. I am sure that some of these people have a specific skill that is needed. The Interior Decorator now on the other hand......To bad the Governor didn’t have the skills to be able to work on computers in the government. Maybe in his next life. I guess he will just have to settle for being the governor.
Federal employees sure. A fiscal disaster.
But you all need to sniff around your own LOCAL municipalities:
Firefighters, teachers, cops, and assorted extraneous bureaucrats.
Check out not just their salaries but their blue-ribbon healthcare, paid time off, and pensions.
All paid for on YOUR back.
/johnny
But they could ALL be making more money in the Private Sector!
“But they could ALL be making more money in the Private Sector!”
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Given the risks and demands of the private sector versus the easy, cushioned, non-demanding path of government work, that is the way it SHOULD be.
Pre-Communist America, the reimbursement gap between private and public employment was substantial.
Those who can, DO, those who can’t, seek government employment.
I went to our highway dept on Friday around 3:30 - they close at 4pm. The doors were locked - early take off before the holiday. That’s an insult to taxpayers in this fiscal climate. None of them give a flip because they have theirs on our back.
In private industry - they are loading work on it’s employees with staying late and taking work home - not so with the gov’t - not expected to make a sacrifice or work even the assigned hours.
Now that is a good plan.
I've been chewing on the Mayor all week about this idiot IT Director. I ran the list prices on the system he wants and it comes to just a hair under $1,000,000.00. That's for a Village of 22,000 people.
I'm freaking livid.
You have a right to be livid and if the news got to the 22,000 - you would have some great company. I’d like to hear the ending of this one!
The simple answer is to analyze each position, the departure rate, and the length of the applicant line for new positions.
Of course, there must be measurable qualifications (eek! Intelligence tests and such!). Any job for which there are no measurable qualification standards (except President) should be eliminated.
If you cut doctor compensation packages by 25%, a bunch might leave. Maybe even more than there are qualified candidates to replace them. Cutting ATC compensation by 25% would probably still leave a long line out the door.
Ideally, government should have no interior decorators. It’s facilities OUGHT to look tacky. It’s government! Let some rich, successful retired decorators volunteer their services to give our servants a more elegantly-designed workplace.
It would take but weeks for inferior aspirin to begin pouring in from Bengla Desh.
You want to live like that I suggest you move there.
Age and Citizenship requirements - US Constitution, Article II, Section 1
No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
In a very clear pattern people were happiest with the crappiest, and moany about the toney!
So, yeah, you're right. But you don't work there.
The US government’s interior decorator might be the guy in charge of the wallspace at the US Capitol.
Computer Operators??
Holy 1987! The few guys I know who are still doing that make around twenty bucks an hour.
Good. The FDA has killed more people than cancer.
It would take but weeks for inferior aspirin to begin pouring in from Bengla Desh.
And every tort lawyer in America would weep for joy 5 seconds after that.
It's called "freedom" muawiyah. Look into it sometime.
If I was ever elected to office, I could easily do with less than $70,000. But that’s because I’d be more like George Washington, and less like a monarch.
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