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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

If You Think Federal Employees in Washington Are Overpaid…

The Rosett Report
If You Think Federal Employees in Washington Are Overpaid…
January 23, 2012

… Check out salaries at the United Nations. According to the U.S. envoy for UN Management and Reform, Joseph Torsella, UN salaries average out to $119,000 per year, and at UN headquarters in New York they are on average 30% higher than U.S. federal salaries in Washington [1].

The UN hasn’t figured much in the Republican debates, but surely those are numbers that would resonate with average American voters — who pay the biggest share of the bill for these average UN salaries.

Salaries at the UN average $119,000 a year, making compensation one of the largest costs at the 193-nation body, Torsella said in August. Today he said the UN is a $36 billion “retro” enterprise stuck in the 1950s and that a “small group of member states” -- which he declined to name -- opposed a push to disclose UN salaries, contracts and budgets.
[1] 30% higher than U.S. federal salaries in Washington: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2012-01-20/u-s-calls-for-salary-freeze-for-employees-at-distorted-un.html
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