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>>Yup. But it's all going towards "obligations" already like paying
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>Hmmm. I suspect some challengeable assumptions here. A) To get a six figure
>retirement don't you have to have a six figure income first? This leads to
>B) What public workers get 6 figure incomes and what do they do? Which may
>lead to C) If they did equivalent work in private what would their income be?
a) It's pretty easy to pull six figures with 40 hours of time-and-a-half and double time pay per week. Some average the last two or three years income to calculate pension earnings.
b) The *average* federal worker makes $72K now.