Federal union workers paid double what same work earns in private sector--USA Today

Tweet 8/10/10, "Federal workers earning double their private counterparts," USA Today, D. Cauchon

• "At a time when workers' pay and benefits have stagnated, federal employees' average compensation has grown to more than double what private sector workers earn, 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 earned 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."...