. . . comes from government Web sites. Much of it we scrape using clumsy Web-page parsing software, and some of it we have to enter by hand.
We could do a lot more – meaning you would know a lot more – if the government would release raw data in usable formats.
In my [...]
Federal civilian workers earned an average wage of $77,143 in 2007, 61 percent higher than the $48,035 average in the U.S. private sector. That 61 percent pay advantage has increased from a 34 percent advantage in 2000.
Total compensation (wages plus benefits) was $116,450 for the average federal worker in 2007, compared to $57,615 in the [...]