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phill4paul
02-11-2018, 11:19 AM
I honestly don't know why anyone would give a penny so that a functionary could live a better life than they do...


Recently, Open the Books filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (pictured) for all federal employee names, titles, agencies, salaries, and bonus information. We’ve captured and posted online this data for the past 11 years. For the first time, we found missing information throughout the federal payroll disclosures. Here’s a sample of what we discovered from the FY2017 records:

- 254,839 federal salaries were redacted in the federal civil service payroll (just 3,416 salaries were redacted in FY2016).

- 68 federal departments redacted salaries. Even small agencies like the National Transportation Services Board and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation redacted millions of dollars in salaries.

-$20 billion in estimated payroll now lacks transparency.

-A 7,360 percent increase in opacity hides one out of every five federal salaries.

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In December 2017, our “OpenTheBooks Oversight Report – Mapping the Swamp, a Study of the Administrative State” found $114 billion in compensation paid to 1.35 million federal civil service employees (excluding the U.S. Post Office) in fiscal year 2016. We found 165 percent growth in bureaucrats making $200,000 or more; 30,000 bureaucrats out-earning all 50 governors at $190,000; and the average salary at 78 large federal agencies exceeding $100,000.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/02/08/20_billion_hidden_in_the_swamp_feds_redact_255000_ salaries.html

Raginfridus
02-11-2018, 11:24 AM
I'm in the wrong business.

timosman
02-11-2018, 11:47 AM
I'm in the wrong business.

No shit Sherlock.

Zippyjuan
02-11-2018, 04:40 PM
That would make the average redacted salary $78,740 a year.

phill4paul
02-11-2018, 04:52 PM
That would make the average redacted salary $78,740 a year.

plus benefits......

oyarde
02-11-2018, 05:55 PM
That would make the average redacted salary $78,740 a year.

I do not think we needed any of them .

Swordsmyth
02-11-2018, 11:41 PM
On what excuse do they claim the need to redact a salary?

timosman
02-12-2018, 12:08 AM
On what excuse do they claim the need to redact a salary?

We would like to avoid envy from the plebs.:cool:

TheTexan
02-12-2018, 12:24 AM
On what excuse do they claim the need to redact a salary?

You think just because you pay taxes that entitles you to know how much they are paid?

Jeez, the attitude on this one ^