Executive Pay for Federal Employees Has Increased $571 Million Since 2015

Pay for executives working in the federal government has increased over half a billion dollars in less than 10 years, according to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF). CTF said it obtained the data from access-to-information records, which show that compensation for executives in federal departments and agencies has increased from $1.38 billion in 2015 to $1.95 billion in 2022. It’s an increase of 41 percent over seven years, CTF noted. The organization also found that the number of federal executives has increased 31 percent over the same period, from 7,138 to 9,371, compared to the increase in inflation, which was 19.4 percent over the same time period. According to the data, the average federal executive salary increased from $193,600 to $208,480 during those seven years....