Government employees have long complained about the gap between their pay and that of their counterparts in the private sector.  That perceived gap was based on research by the Department of Labor that omitted benefits in making the comparison.

Now comes a study from the Department of Commerce that includes benefits and shows a startingly different pay gap:  the average government employee makes $106,000 a year counting benefits compared to $53,000 for the average private employee.

What's more the government employees have much greater job security than those in the private sector.  And, although they complain about the pay gap, they have a much lower resignation rate, indicating that many of them know they have a good deal.

Still we all know that there are examples of underpaid government employees.  Just last week we mentioned here that contracting officers make an average salary of only  $50,000.  We would like to hear from you about other examples of the truly underpaid jobs so that we can get an effort going to get better pay where it is really needed

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