Sequestration-anybody else going to be taking a pay cut soon?

[muddywings]

I'm glad sequestration is going to hit and frankly I wouldn't mind a 3% pay cut but getting tagged for a 20% pay cut because I have to feed the the FSA of American is going to piss me off!

I took a 20% pay cut to go from contractor to GS (so I could buy back all my .mil time towards retirement) so this extra 20% is going to have to make me dip into savings until my wife finishes school.

Latest word is furloughs would start 28 April and I guess would go to the end of the fiscal year and I'm hoping they can pull their collective head out of their asses to figure what to trim.

I'll be doing a lot of mt biking on my free time. Who else out there is going to get an extra day off a week?

Rant off.....

[HBARleatherneck]

i seriously doubt this will happen. nobody on either side is going to make cuts or be unpopular. I did get an email from Udall yesterday about the sequestration.

[asmo]

*yawn*..

Take your GS pension and go cry somewhere else..

[TheGrey]

We might be. It's not a happy thought...but if we end up with an extra day off a week, we're going shooting.

[patrick0685]

sadly ill be in that group

[Zundfolge]

A lot of us in the private sector have taken numerous pay cuts and our jobs are nowhere near as secure as those with government jobs. Its hard to get all that worked up over a bunch of people that generally get paid better than their private sector counterparts having to take a bit of a pay cut (and at worst getting a 3 day weekend ... albeit at their own expense).

Not saying I'm glad some of y'all are going to suffer a tiny bit ... but things are tough all over and at some point if we ever get serious about getting this country's fiscal house in order there's going to have to be cuts that dwarf this goofy little "sequester" (which isn't actually cuts anyway, just reductions in the rate of growth) exponentially.

[Blockhead]

I don't think anyone facing a 20% pay cut would call it "goofy."

[Aloha_Shooter]

It seems like a more massive hit now precisely because 1) the Administration is intentionally taking the cuts where it hurts people the most and is most visible, 2) the Administration and Democrats in Congress avoided taking the cuts for the past 8-10 months so now have to swallow them all over the next few months, 3) Obama is intentionally using it as a political tool against the Republicans.

[motohooligan]

A lot of us in the private sector have taken numerous pay cuts and our jobs are nowhere near as secure as those with government jobs. Its hard to get all that worked up over a bunch of people that generally get paid better than their private sector counterparts having to take a bit of a pay cut (and at worst getting a 3 day weekend ... albeit at their own expense).

Not saying I'm glad some of y'all are going to suffer a tiny bit ... but things are tough all over and at some point if we ever get serious about getting this country's fiscal house in order there's going to have to be cuts that dwarf this goofy little "sequester" (which isn't actually cuts anyway, just reductions in the rate of growth) exponentially.

I think you are the first person I've ever heard saying government workers get paid more than private sector. In my experience (as a currently unemployed former state and fed .gov employee) it is quite the opposite. My sister in-law is a government contractor. She was looking at a similar GS position and it was almost $30,000 less per year. And right now government jobs aren't all that secure (at least DOD civ jobs).

[hatidua]

A lot of us in the private sector have taken numerous pay cuts and our jobs are nowhere near as secure as those with government jobs. Its hard to get all that worked up over a bunch of people that generally get paid better than their private sector counterparts having to take a bit of a pay cut (and at worst getting a 3 day weekend ... albeit at their own expense).

Well put.