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"Public employee unions say the compensation gap reflects the increasingly high level of skill and education required for most federal jobs and the government contracting out lower-paid jobs to the private sector in recent years."

A complete and bald-faced lie.

“Public employee unions say the compensation gap reflects the increasingly high level of skill and education required for most federal jobs and the government contracting out lower-paid jobs to the private sector in recent years.”

Yes, this is so evident when one goes to the DMV, or stand in line at TSA security at the airport, or deal with personnel at many VA hospitals, etc., etc.

“A complete and bald-faced lie.”

It isn't where I work, a the Yuma Proving Ground for the US Army. 20 years ago we were nearly all Government workers, my Team had 20 people, and there were few contractors. Now, we are down to 9 people, we produce four times as much product (mostly because of automation), and more than half the workers on post are contractors.

Also, the trend in Government employees is for people with scientific and engineering degrees.

So, as far as I see, there is some truth to this assertion.

Are the government workers overpaid... I often think so. We do get generous benefits, but they are nowhere as generous as those paid to General Motors employees, which I think are outrageous.