At a time when workers' pay and benefits have stagnated, federal employees' average compensation has grown to more than double what private sector workers earn, a USA TODAY analysis finds.Union officials argue that lower paid jobs have been contracted out, and that the tasks they perform require a high-level of education and skill. Maybe. What USA Today leaves out is that federal employees are almost impossible to fire and enjoy superb retirement packages. Until recently they earned less than the private sector counterparts, but job security and those generous pensions balanced things out.
Federal workers have been awarded bigger average pay and benefit increases than private employees for nine years in a row. The compensation gap between federal and private workers has doubled in the past decade.
Federal civil servants earned average pay and benefits of $123,049 in 2009 while private workers made $61,051 in total compensation, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The data are the latest available.
The federal compensation advantage has grown from $30,415 in 2000 to $61,998 last year.
Federal workers are now having their cake and eating it too. This is something you can't blame on President Obama, but because of his love of all-things-government and all-things-union, the public-private gap will probably grow.
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