Government Employee Salaries

Every government has a structure. Every federal government has three branches, viz., the executive, judicial and legislative. Countries having separate government for the states have a structure too. In this article, we will see the salaries of government employees in US. The US government being a federal one has these three branches of government too. Hence we will need the government structure for understanding the same.

The US government agencies can be divided into four categories, viz., the federal, state, local and tribal governments. Every government has departments under which various employments are given ranging from being a clerk to being the head of the state. So these are the categorization and the departments that come under each government.

Federal Government
Three branches of the federal government are:

• Executive: Executive body of a government is the one that deals with the administration of the country.
• Legislative: As the name suggests, it is the law making body of a country.
• Judicial: Judiciary is the branch of government that works towards implementing and carrying out the laws made by the legislative body.

State Government
The US state governments have some additional territories that come under them apart from the 50 states. These are the American Samao, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Midway Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands. All the people holding posts here in the government offices will be known as government employees of the US.

Local Government
The local government has 11 departments, viz., the agriculture and environment, disasters and emergencies, economic development and infrastructure, education and development, grants and financial management, health and families, information technology, news and networking, online services, public safety and law and statistics at the state and local level.

Tribal Government
This government comprises all the tribes in the US political territory. There are hundreds of tribes, colonies and villages that come under the tribal government of US.

Federal government employees are categorized under the Federal Wage System (FWS) or General Schedule (GS). The range of 2010 GS Base Pay Schedule is from around $17,800 to $129,515. And the range for persons who qualify for the Senior Executive Service (SES), Senior Level (SL) and Scientific & Professional (ST) is around $119,550 to $179,700. The pay of the employees depend on their geographic locations too which comes as an additional amount to their basic salary. The percentage difference above the basic salary ranges from 4.72% to 35.15%, the lowest and highest being Alaska, Hawaii and San Francisco, respectively. This table below gives you the salaries of the ten well-known government job profiles.

Average Salary
Employment	Salaries
Customs Officer	$27,900 - $51,100
Urban Planner	$37,220 - $52,850
Public Transportation Inspector	$38,320 - $57,370
Grants/Proposal Manager	$46,550 - $94,000
Police Sergeant	$48,890 - $78,100
Lobbyist	$61,490 - 169,500
Affairs Director	$72,550 - $155,110
Sheriff/Police Chief	$85,100 - $106,300
Judge/Magistrate	$140,000 - $178,200
Regulatory Affairs Executive	$130,000 - $263,500

Average Salary: Military
Many benefits are given to the military personnel, payday loans for military is one of them. This table gives you the pay scale of the government employees in the military, barring the Air Force due to unavailability of data. But it can be found out by contacting the concerned governors through the government website, directions for which are given in the following paragraphs.

Military Personnel Salaries
Army	Recruit	$15,577
	Private	$17,464
	Private First Class	$15,800 - $20,695
	Specialist/Corporal	$14,300 - $24,700
	Sergeant	$15,255 - $26,560
Navy	Recruit	$15,577
	Seaman Apprentice	$17,464
	Seaman	$15,800 - $20,695
	Petty Officer - 3rd Class	$14,300 - $24,700
	Petty Officer - 2nd Class	$15,255 - $26,560
	Petty Officer - 1st Class	$17,690 - $40,130

There are thousands of jobs under the federal as well state employment and to find the federal government employee discounts, their salaries as well as the state government employee discounts and salaries you can go to www.opm.gov/oca/08TABLES/, which is the Salaries and Wages page of the official US website or directly contact your governor by accessing the US government website. You need to go to www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml, for contacting the governor of any state in the US. Though all the pages of the states do not give salary details, many have the data enlisted. All you have to do is locate 'Find Public Records by Type of Record' and click on 'Employee Directory' after going on publicrecords.onlinesearches.com/.

Apart from these official sources there are some other authentic independent sources too that give the data related to the salary structures of government employees. You can find them from any search engines and browser.