That $70K figure is probably dramatically understating the real present value of their compensation. State employee pensions and retirement health benefits are ridiculous.
Anybody who claims a $250k compensation package is normal in the US is bonkers. Somebody posted it in a sibling thread, but the US BLS has the average salary at $100k. Add benefits and bonuses and you might hit $200k, but even that's a stretch.
They also, on average, get a $50,000/year benefits package, including a fixed-benefit pension. Plus paid overtime. That's not high, or astronomical, it's absolutely outrageous.
A proposal to tie the salary level of all Executive branch compensation to the median income of the American worker, currently roughly $40,000 a year, as determined by the BLS; as well as to merge all retirement plans with Social Security and all healthcare plans with Medicare/Medicaid.
They've almost always been on the same GS scale as almost every other federal employee. $141k seems high from what I remember, but the locality adjustment may top out around there.
but everything included, so that is basically 35k, tax free, or in a lower tax bracket since so much of the compensation is non monetary, purely disposable.
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