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Mar 06 2013

Sequester This: Potentially Furloughed Employees Stay Home Because of SnowQuester, But Feds Still Hiring for Nonessential Positions

In a second letter on federal hiring to Acting Director Jeffrey Zients of the Office of Management and Budget, Dr. Coburn calls for OMB to heed their own previously released guidance and increase scrutiny of all hiring activity in order to avoid furloughs of mission-critical positions.   

According to OMB, the average annual salary for a government employee is around $76,000, meaning that a new hire equates to one week furlough for 52 current government employees.

Current job listings from the federal government include a social media manager at FDA; 23 openings related to recreation, painters at the Air Force, librarians, and public affairs specialists among others.  

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