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CBO: Federal Workers Get 16% More than Private Sector

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Federal workers get 16 percent more than private sector, CBO finds
 
The Hill, Erik Wasson
 
January 30, 2012
 
The Congressional Budget Office found Monday that federal workers are compensated 16 percent more than comparable private sector workers on average.
 
The finding is bound to inflame disputes between Republican and Democrats on how much to reduce the deficit by cutting federal worker pay.
 
The news comes in a week when the House will vote on a bill, sponsored by Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.), to extend the two-year pay freeze for federal civilian workers one more year, through 2013.
 
By contrast, President Obama’s 2013 budget request, due to be sent to Congress on Feb. 13, is to ask for a 0.5 percent cost-of-living raise for workers in 2013.
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