That effort has been around for years, but it now has an intellectual champion in the White House, and I don’t mean President Trump. Congress did not approve the last two recommendations, and the pay freeze, which Trump can impose, is not beyond the leaked-document stage. The authors begin by citing three studies indicating that federal compensation is higher than private-sector compensation by at least 16 percent. They ignored Federal Salary Council data saying federal workers earn 34 percent less, on average, than comparable private-sector employees. “We don’t know him, and he certainly doesn’t know us or federal employees or families.

Source: Washington Post December 17, 2017 13:30 UTC