Comparing Wages in the Federal Government and the Private Sector: Working Paper 2012-03

Justin Falk

No 42922, Working Papers from Congressional Budget Office

Abstract: This analysis used Current Population Survey data from 2005 through 2010 to compare the hourly wages of federal employees and workers in the private sector who have certain similar observable characteristics. In that comparison, we found that the arithmetic average of wages was about 21 percent higher for federal employees than for their private-sector counterparts among workers with no more than a high school education, was about the same in both sectors among workers with a bachelor’s degree, and was 23 percent lower in the federal sector among workers with a professional

Date: 2012-01-30
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