Pay gap between US public and private sector growing

The public-sector pay gap is widening. Unions help shrink it.

State and local government employees earned, on average, 17.6% less than similarly educated private-sector employees, compared with a pre- ...

Government Wage Growth Lags Private Sector by Largest Margin on ...

Wage increases for private workers are generally exceeding those of public employees employed in similar industries or occupations.

The public-sector pay gap is widening, but unions help narrow it

State and local government workers earn less than their private-sector counterparts, and this pay gap has widened since the pandemic, according to a new ...

As wage gap widens between public and private sector workers ...

The narrowest wage gap between public sector workers and private sector workers (17.6%) exists in states with collective bargaining rights. The ...

Comparing the Compensation of Federal and Private-Sector ...

By 2022, the extent to which federal pay exceeded private-sector pay for workers with less education had narrowed, and the pay of federal ...

Pay gap between US public and private sector growing, data shows

The pay gap between federal government and private sector employees is widening, according to data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Out of Balance? Comparing Public and Private Sector ...

During the last 15 years, the pay gap has grown – earnings for state and local workers have generally declined relative to comparable private sector employees.

Tight Labor Market Drives Increase in Public Sector Wages - CBIZ

As a result, the longstanding pay gap between the private and public sectors widened to 24%. However, public sector wage growth has been on ...

Strategies to Address the Wage Gap for Government Workers - CLA

Wage increases for private sector workers exceed those of public sector employees in similar industries or occupations. In addition, state and ...

Federal pay falls even further behind the private sector

Over the last year, federal sector wages fell 27.54% behind those in the private sector, a more than 3% jump in the pay gap since 2022.

New Data Suggests the Federal Pay Gap With the Private Sector Is ...

According to the think tank's analysis, although federal workers maintain an “advantage” over their private sector counterparts, high growth in ...

Comparing the Compensation of Federal and Private-Sector ...

Compared with private-sector employees, the average compensation costs for federal employees in 2022 were greater among workers whose ...

Federal Salaries Not Keeping Up with Private Sector, Report Shows

The 27.54 percent pay gap accounts for the locality pay adjustments federal employees receive in certain areas of the country with a higher cost ...

According to today's Employment Cost Index report, wage disinflation slowed, and so did real wage growth. Private sector wages and salaries rose 4.5% over ...

Public and Private Pay Gap Continues to Widen

The CBO reports that federal employees with a professional or doctorate degree received fewer benefits and earned 24% less wages on average than private sector ...

(Why) Is There a Public/Private Pay Gap? - ScienceDirect.com

Private sector workers also have a two percentage point higher earnings growth a rate of 12 percentage points (compared with 10 percentage points among ...

FACT SHEET: On Equal Pay Day, the Biden-Harris Administration ...

Women workers are still paid on average only 84 cents for every dollar paid to men. And the disparities are even greater for many women of color ...

Comparing Public and Private Sector Compensation over 20 Years

The critical point to take from the “people” approach to estimating earnings differences is that the character- istics of state and local government employees ...

Advocacy groups raise concerns about federal pay system amid ...

The Federal Salary Council reported that federal pay fell further behind private sector pay, from a pay gap of 22.47% in 2021 to 24.09% in ...

Private-public wage gap and return to experience - ScienceDirect.com

A simple regression including the private sector dummy and year dummies identifies the raw average wage gap between private and public sectors as 2%.