The EPA is cutting $750 Million dollars from it’s wage costs…. that’s 3707 employees.
If I am doing my math right (not always a given) that works out to savings PER Employee cut of nearly 203 Thousand dollars (I assume Wages and Benefits).
This includes nearly 300 “DEI and other employees” that are, oddly enough, not needed….
But $200 K per average employee seems kinda high….
The US Public Sector has been paying workers more than the Private Sector for some time now:
Comparing Pay in the Federal Government and the Private Sector – and its been getting worse since that report in 2010.
Very much the Democrats paying in return for contributions, votes and diligence in pushing Dem policies through.
Not surprised that some very high-paying upper GS level employees are being paid that much.
It’s the benefits that’s the big money. Their retirement plans are astronomical. Salaries used to be lower because retirement was good, but then they started matching private industry salaries AND kept the retirement benefits. So you math is definitely spot on.
With benefits, 200K may be a good average.
Good riddance
No, this is a HUGE part of the overall problem. There are hundreds, no millions of governmental employees that are wildly overpaid for their position in general, but also their level of knowledge and capability. They have nice houses, drive nice cars, get braces for all their kids and send them to swanky schools. They ain’t giving it up! Even if they know they’re frauds, they’re still seeing it as my piece of the pie. So they’ll vote for whomever keeps the gravy train flowing.