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you're going to have to provide the data that shows federal employees salaries out of line with the private sector.
Okey-Dokey
Federal pay ahead of private industry - USATODAY.com (http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-03-04-federal-pay_N.htm - broken link)
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Federal employees earn higher average salaries than private-sector workers in more than eight out of 10 occupations, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data finds.
Federal pay ahead of private industry - USATODAY.com (http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-03-04-federal-pay_N.htm - broken link)
indeed, i have seen that "study" before. It is about the quality of work you'd expect from USA Today.
it is a bunch of bull. Federal jobs are concentrated in high-cost DC, and therefore taking their average does not yield an apples to apples comparison with the private sector average, which is not concentrated in DC.
In order to make a valid comparison you'd have to normalize it based on location.
First off, even though it seems like the majority of jobs in the area are government jobs (especially on federal holidays when it seems like I’m the only person going to work), federal jobs account for only 27% of all the jobs in the city. There are less than 200,000 federal employees who work in the city, and around 234,000 federal employees in the whole DC area. So only one quarter of DC workers are working for the feds. That definitely doesn’t sound like a company town to me!
Easy solution to this problem. Contract out every single federal job to the private sector (except the military of course) and let the free market determine salaries. It works for every other industry on the planet.
if 15% of fed workers are in DC, and DC accounts for 1% of the country's population, that means that DC is 15x a 'government town' than the average US community.
Which doesn't necessarily mean that most employees in the city are government workers as you seem to suggest is required for it to be considered a 'government town'.
Also, many of those companies do government work, so directly or indirectly, DC is a gov't town (and a NGO one too, for that matter).
I vote yes for the pay freezes.
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