Teamster Nation: Guess what? Public sector does it cheaper

Teamster Nation: Guess what? Public sector does it cheaper:

Guess what? Public sector does it cheaper

The federal government pays private contractors billions of dollars more than it costs for government workers to do the same job.

It's what we've been saying all along, and a study by the Project on Government Oversight backs us up. CBS News, reporting on POGO's study, says

...in 33 of the 35 occupational categories it reviewed, federal government employees were less expensive than contractors. On average, the federal government pays contractors 1.83 times more than it pays federal employees and two times more than what comparable workers in the private sector are paid.

For instance, the government on average pays contractors $299,374 for accounting services, while it pays federal employees $124,851 for accounting services. By comparison, workers in the private sector (not under contract by the