His bill refuses to accept the premise that they ought to earn 16% more than private sector workers in similar positions.
In your calculations, you don’t mention that.
Just goes to show you that anyone can “prove” anything depending on their angle, their POV, their agenda.
His entire point was, don’t let federal workers earn 16% more than the people who work for private entities who are being taxed (and the rest is borrowed) to pay their salaries.
I'm not a government employee. The problem with these salary comparisons is they don't compare job to job. Government doesn't have many burger flippers.