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More Than 100,000 Non-Essential Employees Paid To Do Nothing

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More than 100,000 non-essential federal employees being paid a salary of at least $100,000 were furloughed as non-essential. Each of these was paid $4,000 for the time off of work during the shutdown.

A sampling of just three federal agencies found more than 35,500 federal employees earning $100,000 or more who were furloughed for performing non-essential duties (and then paid for not performing those duties).

non essential employee of the monthBefore we discuss jacking up unemployment by arbitrarily hiking labor costs on small business owners how about we have a discussion about pegging the maximum salary of all non-essential government employees to the national average income of $51,000.00/year?

Since you refuse to cut those useless jobs we should adopt a policy of non-essential job equals non-essential pay.

It’s not the ideal solution, but it is a step in the right direction.

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