Judicial Watch, the conservative watchdog organization, has found that it pays to work for the government. The group filed Freedom of Information Requests with several government agencies to see how well new hires were being compensated.
Among the agencies queried: The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (until recently run unofficially by Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (several of whose employees famously watched pornography at work as the financial system collapsed).
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- …CFPB workers being hired at salaries twice the maximum ordinarily allowed under guidelines published each year by the Office of Personnel Management. A dozen new hires take home more than $225,000 a year, and a student intern is currently being paid $42,036 “through completion of education & study” as a communications trainee….
- The [Office of the Comptroller of the Currency] responded on August 22, 2011, the SF-50s indicating that 85 workers earn $225,000 or more per year. The employee names, as well as the legal authority under which the pay raises were issued, were blotted out…
- The U.S. Department of the Treasury, responding on August 25, 2011, indicated that two employees earn more than $225,000, but withheld their names.
- The SEC responded on October 3, 2011, reporting that 103 workers earn $225,000 or more per year.
Meanwhile, the Fed refused to provide any of the requested information.
