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Holly Champaign's avatar

The optics of this from an employee recruitment perspective, are awful. One of the reasons people get government jobs is the retirement benefits.

Pay doesn't compare to private and except for a few exceptions, the jobs are exceedingly boring, regulatory complex and your customers (the taxpayers) hate you.

Guess it's one way to shrink government.

Can more leaders to expand this threat to all Federal employees?

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Richard A's avatar

Guess you haven't been keeping up. Your description of federal bureaucrats is dated. Today they make MORE money than the private sector (any number of articles, and papers about it)

Basically there is no opposing force when they bargain, politicians want their votes and the situation has CHANGED

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Holly Champaign's avatar

No, have not, Worked 10 years as a state employee, decades ago, at that time the worker class earned less than private industry but we had great, cheap benefits.

So is this for all job levels or management and above, that salary is on parity with private sector?

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