Here’s how CBS News reports it:
Executive branch employment — 1.98 million in 2009, excluding the Postal Service and the Defense Department — is set to increase by 15.6 percent for the 2010 fiscal year. Most of that is thanks to the Census Bureau hiring 102,000 temporary workers, but not counting them still yields a net increase of 2 percent in one year.
There’s little belt-tightening in evidence in Washington, D.C.: Counting benefits, the average pay per federal worker will leap from $72,800 in 2008 to $75,419 next year.
$75,419 per year? Average? On top of the federal government’s rich retirement and health benefits?
Apparently President Obama is too busy regulating financial industry salaries to bother controlling executive branch salaries.
Source: CBSNews.com
