Reconnoitering the Pay of the Federal Bureaucracy’s Legions

Sifting through the federal payroll data available on FedsDataCenter.com, a service ofFedSmith.com, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin comes to mind for multiple reasons, the first of which is a modified version of his famous question about the Roman Catholic Church: How many divisions has the federal bureaucracy?

According to the Washington Post, the answer in 2010 was 2.7 million executive branch civilians.  Breaking out the 600,000 U.S. Postal Service workers separately, FedsDataCenter lists 1,091,400 federal employees for that year, so it’s a partial list, for whatever reason.  Even so, whatever transparency data one can get is always instructive.

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