Federal Pay and the Private Sector
Federal employees earn higher average salaries than private-sector workers in more than eight out of 10 occupations.Accountants, nurses, chemists, surveyors, cooks, clerks and janitors are among the wide range of jobs that get paid more on average in the federal government than in the private sector.
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