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Originally Posted by Cletus Miller
If you click the link, there's a nice chart that shows the number over $160k went from 2852 to 44898. Which is over 15x.
Also "worse" for $170k and $180k, both with over 21-fold increases.
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I'm not clear who's making more than $160K. GS-15, step 10, makes you
$129,517 in salary. In the DC area, it makes you
$155,500. I would guess that USA Today is using the value of benefits (in particular, medical insurance) to make those numbers bigger. (Insurance really is comp, but most people don't include the value of it in what they'd say they earn.)
Also, USA Today is playing a cute trick with its graph. It shows 82,000 workers making $150K, and 45,000 workers making $160K, e.g. I would bet that the latter are included in the former figure to make it more impressive, though most people looking at that sort of graph would read it differently.
