{"id":817,"date":"2010-03-31T09:26:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T14:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=817"},"modified":"2010-03-31T09:26:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T14:26:10","slug":"postal-or-federal-employee-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2010\/03\/31\/postal-or-federal-employee-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Postal or Federal Employee Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Postal<\/a><\/p>\n

March 31, 2010
\nby Rick Owens
\nPostal Employee Network<\/p>\n

Postal or Federal Employee Pay and Benefits – Just Who Is Paid the Most?<\/em><\/h3>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Time and time again postal employees continually read that postal employee pay and benefits are just too high – critics always like to point out that 80% of USPS costs is labor.<\/p>\n

Just today Newsweek<\/a> states “Perhaps the biggest failure of the five-day delivery plan is that it ignores 80 percent of the Postal Service’s costs: labor. Postmaster Potter has made headway in reducing work hours and the costs of benefits and pensions, but the average postal employee still makes $83,000 in salary and benefits a year, placing postal workers among the highest-paid government employees.”<\/em><\/p>\n

We, as postal employees, get sick and tired of hearing this same broken record over and over. We try to point out to these people that USPS is a service company – we ARE NOT a retail, manufacturing, or banking entity – we are a SERVICE COMPANY. As a service company, providing the most extensive service in this nation, our employee base MUST be large and\u00a0subsequently\u00a0compose the vast majority of costs for USPS. Please – tell us how else could this service exist without a work compliment in place to carry out the service?<\/p>\n

Now, on to salaries and benefits. On March 8, 2010 USA Today<\/a> wrote the following:<\/p>\n

“Federal employees earn higher average salaries than private-sector workers in more than eight out of 10 occupations, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data finds.<\/em><\/p>\n

Overall, federal workers earned an average salary of $67,691 in 2008 for occupations that exist both in government and the private sector, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.<\/em><\/p>\n

These salary figures do not include<\/strong> the value of health, pension and other benefits, which averaged $40,785 per federal employee in 2008.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Please review this chart composed by USA Today – Federal salaries compared to private-sector<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Don’t forget that the salaries listed in USA Today’s chart DOES NOT include an average $40, 785 in benefits for each FEDERAL employee…not postal employee.<\/p>\n

FederalJobs.net<\/a> states:<\/p>\n

“Average annual salary for full-time federal government jobs now exceeds $79,197. The U.S. Government is the largest employer in the United States, hiring about 2.0 percent of the nation’s work force and the workforce is expanding significantly under the Obama administration. Federal government jobs can be found in every state and large metropolitan area, including overseas in over 200 countries. The average annual federal workers compensation in 2008, including pay plus benefits, was $119,982<\/strong> compared to just $59,909 for the private sector according to the United States Bureau of Economic Analysis.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Yes, with benefits postal employee salaries may hover around $83,000 per year, but we contend that they ARE NOT overpaid and their benefits ARE NOT out of line with other federal employees and peer industry employees.<\/p>\n

Your comments and opinion are solicited.<\/p>\n

Rick Owens
\nPostal Employee Network<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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