Story from USA Today. (H/T National Review via ECM)
Excerpt:
Federal employees making salaries of $100,000 or more jumped from 14% to 19% of civil servants during the recession’s first 18 months — and that’s before overtime pay and bonuses are counted.
Federal workers are enjoying an extraordinary boom time — in pay and hiring — during a recession that has cost 7.3 million jobs in the private sector.
The highest-paid federal employees are doing best of all on salary increases. Defense Department civilian employees earning $150,000 or more increased from 1,868 in December 2007 to 10,100 in June 2009, the most recent figure available.
When the recession started, the Transportation Department had only one person earning a salary of $170,000 or more. Eighteen months later, 1,690 employees had salaries above $170,000.
The average private sector salary is about $40,000. The average federal worker makes over $71,000.
WINTERY KNIGHT 
And they get lots of benefits, too
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Yes, but let’s keep in mind the private sector has more lower-wage jobs than the government along with the fact more degreed people work in the government. “Studies” like this are comparing burger-flippers to NASA scientists.
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Hey, do you have any evidence for this? Also, what do you say to the evidence in the article that shows massive increases in government salaries, increases not matched in the private sector, which is now up to 10% unemployment thanks to the massive government spending taking money away from private sector employers for things like healthy vending machines?
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