Government versus Civilian Employment, Which would you rather be? (graph)

Government employees enjoy a tremendous amount of job security. This is evidenced by the blue line on the chart.

The red line represents civilian employment. The bottom of the red line, current data, shows the loss of 5.1 million jobs.

While government employees often make less, there is an obvious compensating balance.

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