The federal pay freeze that isn't
12/2/2010 9:54:13 AM by James MacDougald
Filed under: federal workers, pay freeze, step increases, within-grade increases, WGI, bonuses

We were heartened when we saw that President Obama announced a "pay freeze" for federal workers. The Free Enterprise Nation has spent more than a year educating Americans about the pay and benefits imbalance that exists between the private sector and the public sector. Federal employee total compensation and benefits had risen from 60% above private sector averages to 103% higher in the last decade, reaching $103,000 in 2009. Perhaps our trips to Capitol Hill, dozens of radio and TV appearances, and the book, "Unsustainable", had finally found an audience with Presidential advisors? We were anxious to look at the details of this latest effort to become fiscally conservative and to “rein inâ€