More Than 18,000 Federal Employees Make More Than $200,000 a Year in Base Salary

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More than 18,000 federal employees make more than $200,000 a year in a base salary. This does not include year-end bonuses or other perks.
National Journal reported:

More than 16,900 federal employees took home in excess of $200,000 in base salary in 2014, according to a partial database of federal salary data.

The information, compiled by FedSmith.com using data from the Office of Personnel Management and other agencies, shows the annual compensation for every civilian federal worker, save those at the Defense Department. The number of workers earning more than $200,000 represented about 1.6 percent of employees on the list and is up from about 15,000 who cleared that salary in 2013. It also makes up a slightly higher percentage of the employees on this list.

Most of the high earners worked as medical officers at the Veterans Affairs Department. Other agencies that require a highly specialized workforce paid several employees at least $200,000; these included the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

More than 1,600 federal employees cleared $300,000 in base salary last year. Just two—VA doctors in Palo Alto, Calif., and Pittsburgh—took in more than $400,000.

Federal civil servants earned average pay and benefits of $123,049 in 2009 while private workers made $61,051 in total compensation.
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Beltway workers today make more than Silicon Valley employees.
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(Bloomberg)

Research has revealed private sector employees work harder than public sector employees.

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