{"id":471,"date":"2018-09-13T21:11:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T01:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secondordereffects.com\/?p=471"},"modified":"2018-11-05T13:04:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T18:04:58","slug":"why-do-us-government-employees-make-more-then-the-average-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secondordereffects.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/13\/why-do-us-government-employees-make-more-then-the-average-american\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do US Government Employees Make more then the Average American?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>Many in the media take shots at Federal Employees on a regular basis over salaries.&nbsp; The media members taking these shots compare the average income of a federal employee and the average income of all Americans.&nbsp; There have been numerous studies that show that Federal Employees make anywhere from 30% to 60% more than the average American.&nbsp; There are a number of issues with these comparisons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>&nbsp;Federal employees do is very different work from that of the average American.&nbsp;&nbsp;<ul><li>The most common job Americans hold is Retail Sales Associate &#8211; they don&#8217;t exist in the federal government.<\/li><li>The most common job title in the US government is an Administrator (5% of the federal work force) not really something we can find in the US job market outside the government.<\/li><li>There are ones in common, as an example, the second most common job in the US Government is a Nurse, the fifth most common American job.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Many federal employees are concentrated in high cost\/salary areas like Washington DC region and Southern California, 25% of the work force is in these two areas.<\/li><li>The average federal employee is older and more experienced.&nbsp; Working for the government tends to hold people because of the security &#8211; federal government unlikely to close.<\/li><li>The average federal employee has more education than the average American Worker.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>The following table shows the 10 most common American jobs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"366\" height=\"305\" src=\"https:\/\/www.secondordereffects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.secondordereffects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/image-1.png 366w, https:\/\/www.secondordereffects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/image-1-300x250.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 366px) 100vw, 366px\" \/><figcaption>Table &#8211; 1 Most common American jobs from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ranker.com\/list\/most-common-jobs-in-america\/american-jobs\">Ranker.Com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep in mind that over the last 40 years many of the administrations have been privatizing large swaths of the government.&nbsp; Most low pay jobs are done by contractors, not government personnel.&nbsp; Now compare the table above with the table below that shows the most common jobs in the federal government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"325\" src=\"https:\/\/www.secondordereffects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.secondordereffects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/image-2.png 600w, https:\/\/www.secondordereffects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/image-2-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Table 2 &#8211; Most Common Federal Jobs from Office of Personnel Management (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opm.gov\/Data\/Files\/543\/d905b579-07e9-41fa-accc-04e2d15bc0ae.pdf\">OPM<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As far as the rest of the reasons that the average government employee makes more than the average American, one only has to look at the site&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.payscale.com\/research\/US\/Country=United_States\/Salary\">www.payscale.com<\/a>&nbsp;and you will find that the four things that effect Salaries are: job, experience, location, and skill.&nbsp; Federal employees generally are at the upper end of all of these measures, and<strong> that is why they get paid more than the average American.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many in the media take shots at Federal Employees on a regular basis over salaries.&nbsp; The media members taking these shots compare the average income of a federal employee and the average income of all Americans.&nbsp; There have been numerous studies that show that Federal Employees make anywhere from 30% to 60% more than the 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