Looking for federal employment can be confusing ... Most white-collar jobs are in the General Schedule (GS) pay system and blue-collar jobs are in the Wage Grade (WG) pay system.

In 2011-2013, civilian federal employees received no pay raise at all. Check out the pay raise trends in the chart below.

The federal government is trying to close the gender ... OPM broke out the managers and supervisors by age into the chart below.

(See last week’s chart ... who don’t pay income taxes, which now accounts for nearly half of the U.S. population. Meanwhile, most of that population receives generous federal benefits.