A new Congressional Budget Office report confirms what a 2012 CBO analysis found: Federal employees' compensation — wages plus benefits — continues to outpace private-sector compensation for similar jobs, now totaling “roughly 17 percent more,” according to The Washington Free Beacon.

Federal workers with no educational credentials beyond a high school diploma earned 53 percent more than their private-sector counterparts from 2011 through 2015. Those with bachelor's degrees earned 21 percent more. And “benefits increased at a greater rate for federal workers than wages did,” The Free Beacon reports. READ MORE