Does anyone know what the total value of government worker entitlements are?
Submitted by psujim85 on Mon, 02/01/2010 - 22:45in
In NJ we can not pay the massive debt run up to pay for Cadillac government worker retirement plans and pensions. If it is that bad here, what is the total run up by the federal government employees????
Lots of federal holidays for one.
I get 5 holidays a year in private industry.
But I sure pay a lot for the federal workers who get about 2 weeks worth each year.
PLUS their vacation.
What a country!
"We have allowed our nation to be over-taxed, over-regulated, and overrun by bureaucrats. The founders would be ashamed of us for what we are putting up with."
-Ron Paul
Government Employees Are Usually "Conservatives"
Almost all of the government employees I know (in Texas) think that they are "conservatives" and they spend their days complaining about "the government" and how all government programs are terrible and unconstitutional and inefficient. But when you point out that they work for the government, they will explain ad infinitum about how **their job** is different and/or how the agency that they work for is needed and its all the other agencies that are useless and inefficient.
You know, similar to how many "conservatives" will defend Reagan's deficit spending that tripled the national debt, and simultaneously complain about current deficit spending.
People's "principles" are totally malleable, depending on which team is in office. If its "the good guys" doing something they don't like, they will figure out how to rationalize a way to justify the violation of their "principles" and/or explain how what you are seeing with your own eyes isn't really what it appears to be.
An average...
A full-time government worker receives benefits worth an average of $27,830 per year. A private worker's benefits are worth $16,598.
Source here...
http://www.usatoday.com/money/workplace/2009-04-09-compensat...
There are over 22 million government employees now...
Source...
http://fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/milestone/
So to answer your question, we pay, yearly, a total of
$612,260,000,000 (yes, 612 BILLION) a year for government employees to have thier benefits.
Please, someone for the love of God tell me I just did the math wrong.
Edit I actually did.. there are 4.2 million FEDERAL employees, which was your actual question.
That makes it a mere 116,886,000,000, or 117 Billion.
I feel much better.. not.
As an aside, the average wage for a Federal worker is $71,260, meaning we pay them 299,292,000,000 (299 Billion) a year as well.
:(
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Average now 100,000
average wage for a Federal worker is $71,260
Plus benefits
So the average is 100,000 dollars now.
Hey Devon how about all those retired bureaucrates that are
laying on the sandy beaches in Florida at our expense?
"Since 1789 the only government on Earth that has the power to crush the American people`s liberties across the board is the government of the United States"
Robert Higgs
Gah.
Source...
http://www.cbo.gov/budget/factsheets/2008/civilservice.pdf
Looks like a paltry 67 billion a year (excluding benefits, of course)
Retired military is from another fund, I think... this is getting to be a rabbithole as well!
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Or the ones who retire with full pension and then work
as contractors. It happens a lot.
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technically
under penalty of perjury we all claim ourselves federal employees and every taxable action an entitlement when income tax is paid. Curious they have never asked us to clarify this...
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