{"id":35601,"date":"2013-05-14T17:30:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T21:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35601"},"modified":"2013-05-14T15:55:38","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T19:55:38","slug":"secdef-to-dod-civilians-youre-getting-11-unpaid-days-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35601","title":{"rendered":"SECDEF to DoD Civilians: You’re Getting 11 Unpaid Days Off"},"content":{"rendered":"

The SECDEF has announced DoD’s decision on civilian furloughs this afternoon.\u00a0 That announcement directs a total of 11 unpaid days off <\/a><\/strong>for most of the DoD civilian workforce (650,000 of 750,000 civilian employees will be affected) between now and 30 September 2013.\u00a0 Furloughs will begin the week of 8 July 2013, with one unpaid day off per week.\u00a0 They may end earlier than the end of September if financial conditions allow.<\/p>\n

Sequestration, of course, is the reason.<\/p>\n

The financial savings will not be inconsequential.\u00a0 The exact dollar amount isn’t easy to calculate quickly.\u00a0 But making an assumption or two, we can come up with what should be a reasonable, “ballpark” estimate.<\/p>\n

Eleven workdays equates to 88 paid hours per employee.\u00a0 Since the furloughs will affect 650,000 civilian employees, that will save salary and benefits costs associated with 57,200,000 staff-hours.<\/p>\n

Benefits costs typically add between 1\/3 and 1\/2 to the cost of hourly wages.\u00a0 Let’s be conservative and use 1\/2 to get a “worst case” number.<\/p>\n

Determining the average hourly wage across all affected DoD employees would be difficult.\u00a0 So let’s assume that averages out to an hourly rate of somewhere in the mid-GS12 ramge.\u00a0 This is probably too high – but we need to use something.\u00a0 It will at least be “in the ballpark”.<\/p>\n

Doing the math, that works out to a savings of about $3,260,400,000<\/p>\n

No, that’s not chump change.\u00a0 But to put it in perspective:\u00a0 that’s also not much over 0.6% of this year’s DoD 2013 base budget – and less than 0.5% of DoD’s 2013 total outlays, when contingency operation supplemental appropriations and other outlays are counted.<\/p>\n

But we should count our blessings.\u00a0 Uncle Sam still has\u00a0plenty of money to pay for really nice hotels<\/a><\/strong> when the POTUS or Vice President travel.\u00a0 Or to fly the Vice President that 110 miles or so between DC and Wilmington, DE of AF-2<\/strong><\/a> most weekends.<\/p>\n

Maybe you don’t want to mention that fact to any of the folks who’ll be directly affected by the furlough, though.\u00a0 Since the furloughs will be imposed on a 1-day-per-workweek basis, those individuals will be seeing a 20+% cut in take-home pay for 11 weeks.\u00a0\u00a0 That might affect their outlook, attitude, and sense of humor just a bit.<\/p>\n

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