Are federal regime workers overpaid?

Yes, says CBO:

Differences inwards full compensation—the inwardness of payoff together with benefits—between federal together with private-sector employees varied according to workers' instruction level.

• Federal civilian employees amongst no to a greater extent than than a high schoolhouse instruction averaged 36 percentage higher full compensation than like private-sector employees.
• Federal workers whose instruction culminated inwards a bachelor's flat averaged fifteen percentage higher full compensation than their private-sector counterparts.
• Federal employees amongst a professional person flat or doctorate received xviii percentage lower full compensation than their private-sector counterparts, on average.

Overall, the federal authorities paid xvi percentage to a greater extent than inwards full compensation than it would accept if average compensation had been comparable amongst that inwards the mortal sector, afterwards accounting for for certain observable characteristics of workers.

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