It’s almost as if someone is rewarding failure…
Despite controversial delays in Obamacare and costly problems with its healthcare.gov website, most officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services were paid more last year than the year before, newly released data show.
CMS, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, is the federal government’s ground zero in launching and managing Obamacare.
Data obtained by the Washington Examiner through a Freedom of Information Act request showed CMS employed at least 522 people at the federal government’s highest rating, GS-15, and other senior-level civil service employees in 2013, an increase of 53 over the previous year.
The total cost of the CMS payroll data released to the Examiner increased to more than $76 million, compared to $69 million in 2012.
Senior CMS employees made at least $113,000 or more, according to the data.
Of the nearly 400 people in the data who worked with CMS in 2012 and who remained with the agency last year, nearly half got raises, with the average raise being worth $4,706, the data shows. Of those who got raises, their average pay rose from $147,279 to $149,289, a raise of about 1.4 percent.
The justification for the raises was not clear from the data. Federal workers have not gotten cost-of-living adjustment raises since 2010.
HT: Wounded Dove