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Musk's DOGE Wants To 'Delete' Government Agencies. Here's Where The Most People Are Employed And What They Make
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have floated trimming head count at government agencies. BI looked at the biggest federal employers and their salaries.
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The Lede
Elon Musk's government-efficiency commission could end up costing some federal workers their jobs. As he and the former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy begin to outline their priorities as leaders of the Department of Government Efficiency, created by Donald Trump, one of those priorities seems to be eliminating government agencies.
Key Details
- More than 2 million Americans collect their paychecks from the federal government, so BI looked into which agencies employ the most people and what they pay on average.
- Most departments had six-figure average salaries, with the Department of Education and the Department of Energy having the highest averages.
- Musk said that while the commission's goal was to cut spending by reducing head count, he'd consider giving impacted workers "very long severances" that could amount to two years' pay.
