Something doesn’t add up here
800,000 workers
<times $50,000 avg salary
———————————
$40,000,000,000 a year
<divided by 12 (months)
This shutdown has saved us $3,333,333,333 in one month?
<divided by 30 (one month)
$111,111,111 per day
“The average income in the US was $48,976 as of December. Keep that number in mind as you hear these figures. Average federal compensation now averages more than $128,000 per federal employee per year. That’s right, the person making less than $50,000 per year is supporting someone who works for them yet earns in excess of twice what they make.”
https://wjno.iheart.com/content/2019-01-03-how-much-federal-employees-earn-and-how-much-you-pay-them/
Damn. i went with an average pay far less than what it actually averages out to be.
So based on those numbers:
800,000 times
$128,000
=$102,400,000,000,000
How the fuck is that possible?