USA Today is out with another analysis aimed at painting federal workers as overpaid. The analysis of Office of Personnel Management data finds that doctors at the Veterans Affairs Department, lawyers at the Securities and Exchange Commission and physicians at the National Institutes of Health are among those whose annual salaries totaled more than $180,000 in Sept. 2010.
Federal workers earning more than $180,000 annually represent just 1 percent of the workforce, yet their ranks soared from the 805 employees who earned such salaries in 2005 to 17,828 employees who earn them today, USA Today found.
Surprisingly, some federal information technology jobs made the list. The analysis identified 31 IT management jobs at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and 18 IT management jobs at the Securities and Exchange Commission that commanded $180,000+ salaries.
Brittany Ballenstedt
Brittany Ballenstedt writes Nextgov's Wired Workplace blog, which delves into the issues facing employees who work in the federal information technology sector. Before joining Nextgov, Brittany covered federal pay and benefits issues as a staff correspondent for Government Executive and served as an associate editor for National Journal's Technology Daily. She holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Mansfield University and originally hails from Pennsylvania. She currently lives near Travis Air Force Base, Calif., where her husband is stationed.
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