Federal Union President Issues Statement on BLS Report Finding Federal Pay 26.3% Lower than Private Sector
Friday, November 4, 2011
Washington, D.C.
– William
R. Dougan, National President the National
Federation of Federal Employees, a national
union representing 110,000 federal employees in
40 separate departments and agencies
government-wide, issued the following statement
regarding the Bureau of Labor Statistics’
finding that the gap between federal and
private sector pay has increased to
26.3%:
“It comes as no surprise that the Bureau of Labor Statistics found such a substantial disparity between federal and private sector pay. Federal employees have known for years that lower pay was one of the many sacrifices they made by choosing to serve their country. This may however come as a surprise to those in Congress calling for draconian cuts to federal pay and benefits as a means to ‘bring federal compensation more in line with the private sector.’ The reality is that bringing federal compensation practices in line with the private sector would require a hefty pay increase for federal workers. Federal employees do their part to keep the federal budget down every day when they accept substantially less compensation to do the same work as their counterparts in the private sector. This pay gap figure is just the latest illustration of how federal employees continue to sacrifice to keep our country’s fiscal house in order.”
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