re: Which Engineering degree do you feel is the hardest at LSU?

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Did he specify that he was talking about engineering?

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Did you miss the title of the thread we are in?

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There are certainly government jobs that pay more and have the same job title as private sector jobs. This is probably not the case concerning engineering, though.

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I didn't see the thread on the first page of the poliboard. What are some of those professions?

ETA: Just found the thread, and the following sums up my feelings:

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It's misleading. First of all - the government has largely outsourced a lot of menial, low wage jobs to contractors (as well as some high wage technical jobs, but for which there is an elastic need).

The government is full of lawyers and accountants. Many of them take less in places like San Francisco, DC/N. Virginia, NYC, etc. The fact that this "average" doesn't consider those complex factors makes any analysis difficult at best, and perhaps worthless in the grand scheme of things.

Now, in smaller communities, federal employees probably do out-earn their peers. But keep in mind, there are almost no GS employees doing custodial work, fast food, lawn care, etc. - those jobs are all done by contractors (if at all). Most federal workers are performing some sort of technical, professional or clerical work, typically semi-skilled or skilled.

So, it is an apples-to-oranges comparison as the federal workforce does not, in any way, reflect a cross-section of the U.S. labor force.

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I can't speak for federal, but at the state level, I'm not sure I've seen any salaries that were more than their private sector counterpart, let alone 78% more.