rightwinger
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Personal experience.
My response stated MANY. Your $2k per year for HI are pre-tax dollars. SS and Medicare were not/are not part of SALARY, which was what the OP had linked too.
Also, there are many layers of Fed employees. Not each layer has a defined benefit plan.
Just take a look at congressional pay/benefits and see what you find.
MANY are given a nice retirement salary, for few years on the job, at the expense of the taxpayer.
All Federal Employees receive the same benefits package and that includes Congress. No one receives a nice retirement package for a few years on the job. You get one percent of your salary for every year worked starting at age 62 for Congressmen.
A Senator who served two terms would get 12% of $172,000 or $21,000 a year once he reached the age of 62
Have you googled the benefits a President gets after one term?
CIA, FBI, ICE, HLS?
I am not referring to the worker bees.
But back to federal salaries.
Here is a list of WH staff salaries. It does not include benefits.
2011 Annual Report to Congress on White House Staff | The White House
The 'Assistant to the President (fill in the blanks)' are commonly known as Czars.
I don't see your point. I see salaries of $45 k to $172k. Not extreme when compared to the private sector where top executive pay routinely tops $1 million.
I would not compare the benefits a president makes as indicative of the whole federal workforce