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Old 08-12-2010, 09:40 AM   #1
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Under paid except for benefits.

I worked for federal government for 52 years and just retired because of health conditions.
When I started my annual pay was 2450 per year in 1954. The average factory worker was making 100 per week,or 2.50 per hr,twice my starting salary.
I worked my way up to a system analyst position as a gs 14 .My last salary was 120K.
My pension is 9K a month.
For about 30 years my salary was under most union manufacturing wages. Since the republicans (Reagan) managed to destroy the unions and send manufacturing to slave labor countries ,I am now overpaid.
A professional with two master degrees didn't make as much as a autoworker with no education. So I stayed for the pension.and as things turned out,I'm glad I did .
BTW - one reason these stats are skewed is because all the menial jobs are now handled by private contractors thereby raising the average for real gs employees .
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Old 08-12-2010, 09:47 AM   #2
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Welcome to the Cellar, oldtimer.
With a 9k pension, you shouldn't have a problem paying your bills.
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