Military pay outstrips civilian salaries
June 27, 2009 - 7:09 PM
Andrew Gant
Daily News
Thousands of Okaloosa County's better-paid public servants don't get their paychecks from any state, county or city office.They work for Uncle Sam.The military's enormous economic impact here - an estimated $6 billion in 2008 - is unrivaled.While some 23,000 active-duty airmen and civilian employees based at Eglin Air Force Base, Hurlburt Field and Duke Field were not sifted into the Daily News' new online salary database, the average military paycheck easily outpaces the average non-military or non-contract worker's salary.In 2008, the University of West Florida's Haas Center for Business Research released its Florida Defense Industry Economic Impact Analysis. It calculated average military earnings per job in 2005 were $68,540 - or 170 percent of the $39,990 state average.In 2010 and 2011, economists project the military workforce will grow by about 4,500 because of incoming personnel with the Army's 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Initial Training Center. Many of them will bring families.
ANOTHER FACTOID - There is over 40,000 Retired Military in the Okaloosa County Area making at least 1/2 the salaries while in the military for the rest of their lives and most having transitioned into other jobs at age 40; you can imagine how much they are making now. By the way, they usually don't have anymore kids in the house. More disposable income. This is the area's customers.
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Hi,
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