July 01, 2010 10:58 PM UTC

Highest Paid Jobs in a Down Market

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• by: CoalCreekWildfire

Do you want a high paying job? The Feds are hiring and they pay an average of $71,000:

• Federal: $71,206 ***********************************

• State: $54,101 ***************************

• Private: $40,331 ********************

One in five federal employees make over $100,000 per year:

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.

For really high pay, check out the Department of Transportation:

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.

Are the Materials Management Service (MMS) and SEC bureaucrats, who failed to protects us from Bernie Madoff and BP, worth that much?

Dennis Cauchon, For feds, more get 6-figure salaries, USA Today, 12/11/2009 12:15 PM, http://usat.me?37013054