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Via the Boston Globe’s “Myth of the underpaid public employee”, the text of a WJS ad by the Free Enterprise Nation.

The private sector provides pay and benefits for public sector workers that we cannot afford to provide for ourselves. • The average federal employee earns $119,982 per year in compensation and benefits. • The average private sector employee earns $59,909 per year in compensation and benefits. • To cover the additional pay and benefits of federal employees, $100 billion a year is taken from the private sector in income taxes. And federal employees make up only 2 million of the 20 million that work in the public sector.