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Trivia Tidbit of the Day: Part 714 -- Federal Job & Salary Boom.

Washington, D.C. Growing Like An Amoeba-

Some fascinating numbers from USA Today:

Federal employees making salaries of $100,000 or more jumped from 14% to 19% of civil servants during the recession's first 18 months — and that's before overtime pay and bonuses are counted.

Federal workers are enjoying an extraordinary boom time — in pay and hiring — during a recession that has cost 7.3 million jobs in the private sector.

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The highest-paid federal employees are doing best of all on salary increases. Defense Department civilian employees earning $150,000 or more increased from 1,868 in December 2007 to 10,100 in June 2009, the most recent figure available.

When the recession started, the Transportation Department had only one person earning a salary of $170,000 or more. Eighteen months later, 1,690 employees had salaries above $170,000.

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The growth in six-figure salaries has pushed the average federal worker's pay to $71,206, compared with $40,331 in the private sector.

This is obscene. Every newly-created federal job created means more government employee union money and activism. This explosion means hundreds-- possibly even thousands-- more 2-3 thousand dollar donors to the Democratic Party, all of whom have very personal vested interests in the perpetual growth of big government and many of whom will be donating a small fraction of their paychecks to protect those vested interests.

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Posted by Will Franklin · 11 December 2009 09:51 AM

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