Ann Coulter: Federal workers have the BEST benefits and vacation days, etc. in the world. I call BS.

[Drahthaardogs]

10. It's bullshit.

I'm a fed. I'm a highly technical, highly educated employee. I am underpaid by the government about 40% for a comparable POSITION.

I am senior so I tend to get the big and complicated projects. If actually compared my salary to someone who held similar PROJECTS, I am paid about 10% of what I would be in private industry.

My cousin works for a large engineering company. Compared to me he has better insurance, larger company contributions to this 401K, twore weeks paid vacation, and gets a company car.

Now, I have nice benefits. My health insurance is solid (but just for the record, based upon my contributions and what my employer matches, I could get one of those super premium plans on the exchange), basically I pay more than I should for what I receive.

I get sick leave, vacation, and a small pension (30% of high 3 if I can last 30 years) when I retire. I also get to keep my health insurance until I get Medicare. The government will pay their portion into retirement. That's really the best benefit I gave, and the ONLY one worth sticking around for.

The problem with federal pay comparisons is they include EVERYONE's salary averaged and compare it to feds. So I am compared to a pool that includes retail workers and manual laborers. They use this average to say "See, feds are overpaid". It's wrong because most of the federal workforce are highly educated white collar jobs. When you compare us to our actual peers, we are underpaid.