Everything you thought you knew about federal workers’ pay is wrong

Have you ever heard a politician or pundit complain about “overpaid federal bureaucrats?”

If you’ve been paying attention, I bet you have.

It’s a claim repeated so often, it almost seems like common sense. But, if you accepted that “common sense,” I’m here to tell you that everything you thought you knew about federal pay is wrong.

The truth is that multiple credible studies show federal employees are woefully underpaid relative to what they could earn in the private sector for similar work.