No Recession for Our Lords and Masters

Don't this just warm your heart in this holiday season ?

Friday, December 11, 2009

Average Federal Government Worker Pay $71, 206

USA Today reports:

The number of federal workers earning six-figure salaries has exploded during the recession, according to a USA Today analysis of federal salary data.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.

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.

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Bet you won't find many liberal Democrats living in Obamavilles this Christmas. They've all got government patronage jobs through ACORN and the bureaucracy,