Federal worker pay tops private sector pay. Few public-sector workers are employable in the private sectors, for good reason.

This ain't right.

At a time when worker pay and benefits have stagnated, federal employees' average compensation has grown to more than double what private-sector workers make, a USA Today analysis finds.

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 received 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.

Overpaid workers, bloated salaries and benefits; most of 'em represented by Service Unions. Many of these employees are likely easily expendable, and wouldn't be missed.

Can you say Federal, State and City employee wage and benefit freezes, with rollbacks for every department? And no new hiring, until we get our economy fixed. There's no need to create so many new Federal jobs, Mr. Obama, just to make employment numbers look a bit better.

While we're looking at Federal employees, I'll bet every State has plenty of overpaid and underzealous sorts who could be carefully examined, for to prove their true use and value to The Company. Oh, that's right, Federal, State and Local governments are not 'Companies'; they are public sector non-profits who live off of our taxes and don't really have to concern themselves overmuch about tightening the budgets to a point that actually...hurts. As most private companies must.

What I could do as Personnel Director for government! Evaluations, screenings, monitoring work output and throughput to drive maximum efficiencies. And the firings!, departmental cutbacks for to trim bloated budgets, wage and salary freezes and wage rollbacks for those determined to be...not of any use or value. The crying, it would be loud, but would we actually lose anyone of value? No, because valuable resources would stand out as valuable resources, and, as cream, rise to the top. We'd give valuable resources raises funded by rollbacks from the sluggards.

Case in point: Driver's License Renewals, State of Tennessee. Never have I witnessed a more poorly-run 'office'. Employees are to a person seemingly disdainful, distant and morose, unhelpful and uncaring. Without the motivation needed to rise up and excel, such people are dead-enders walking. And sitting, mostly. Sure, you have a steady stream of some of the lowest sorts of humanity, but you also have Daddy with his Daughter who's getting her first driver's test. What a nice experience; let down by dealing with lackluster, hate-their-job peoples who, in a 'real' company, would find themselves on their fat asses just outside the front door, told to get lost. Severance this, bitch.

I suspect most Government jobs attract the same sorts. These would-be private sector failures.

Exceptions? Of course! Medical, Fire, Police, those who are hands-on and truly helpful to society. I speak with disdain mostly of the paper-pushers and others who have jobs they hate and, well, it shows.

But they can't do any better. And the pay is good, so they just do enough to get by, flow baby flow. Dead-enders on the dole.

I'll bet you know a few, if you know any Civil Servants employed at any level of government.

Posted by Serr8d