Nearly 17,000 federal employees pocketed more than $200,000 in base salary in 2014, some of them earning more than top-ranking feds like the vice president, according to a federal salary database from the Office of Personnel Management.
The 16,900 civilian federal workers earning over $200,000 make up 1.6 percent of workers on the OPM's list of agency-specific payments, the National Journal reported. Out of that number, 1,600 workers took home more than $300,000 as a base salary.
An extra $100,000 went to two doctors for the Department of Veterans Affairs, according to the OPM data compiled by FedSmith.com. Not even the top federal employees listed in the Executive Schedule, including the vice president, earn that much - their salaries were $201,700 for 2014.
Earning less than that are workers on the General Schedule, where most federal employees are categorized, whose salaries were capped off at about $130,000.
Also included in the 1.6 percent are highly skilled workers for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
The salary data, which does not include bonus pay, is up from the roughly 15,000 federal workers earning more than $200,000 in 2013. But the information comes during a time the government is releasing less and less data on how much its workers are earning, the National Journal noted.
In 2003, the OPM stopped providing numbers for Defense Department civilian employees and by 2005 it began redacting more names and jobs from other departments.
