• Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency aims to reduce the number of federal workers.
• Business Insider looked at the highest average salaries for federal civilian employees by occupation.
• The top 20 had an average salary of more than $160,000, with medical officers ranking No. 1.

Federal workers Those employed as medical officers, airline pilots and attorneys general earn lucrative salaries on average — but their jobs could be in jeopardy under the president-elect. Donald TrumpA new measure of government efficiency.

Trump’s Department of Government Performanceor DOGE, is headed by Tesla’s CEO. Elon Musk and former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. The two leaders of the commission wrote in one A recent opinion piece In the Wall Street Journal they will aim. Reduction in government spending And reduce headcount in federal agencies, meaning public employees risk losing their jobs.

to use US Office of Personnel Management With data through March, Business Insider looked at the average salaries of federal civilian employees across all agencies to see who is earning the most on average across hundreds of occupations.

Three of the five occupations with the highest average salaries were health-related. Medical officers, who worked largely for the Department of Veterans Affairs, had the highest average salary. Financial analyst workers rounded out the top 20 highest-paying jobs on average. His largest employer, with about 300 analysts, was the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Most top jobs were classified as white collar by OPM.

Looking at Average Salary The Department of Education and the Department of Energy have the highest number of workers within Cabinet-level agencies, regardless of occupation, with an average of more than $140,000.

Musk and Ramaswamy introduced an opt-out requiring all federal employees to come into the office five days a week, which could increase volunteer turnover. About 1.3 million federal civilian workers were “eligible to participate in telework” as of March, most of them professional and administrative workers, according to data from the Office of Personnel Management.

Musk and Ramaswamy wrote, “DOGE intends to work with embedded appointments in agencies to identify the minimum number of employees necessary for an agency to perform its constitutionally legitimate and legally mandated functions. can go.”

Musk and Ramaswamy also proposed early retirement and severance packages to incentivize lower headcount, but did not provide further details on the benefits they would offer to affected employees.

“The American people re-elected President Trump by an overwhelming margin and gave him a mandate to follow through on his campaign promises,” Carolyn Levitt, spokeswoman for the Trump-Vance transition, told BI earlier when DOGE’s plans Asked about Cost reduction “He will deliver.”

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