Flashback 2016: Number of federal workers making at least $100,000 tops half-million

Flashback 2016. ABC News reports :

The I-Team analyzed government data from the Office of Personnel Management and found that last year the number of federal employees making more than $100,000 topped 500,000 for the first time. That's 25 percent of the entire federal workforce of roughly 2.1 million. In the last 15 years, the number of federal workers making $100,000 increased from 66,116 to 509,025, a nearly 800 percent increase.

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