Federal workforce: Pay for 100 occupations

— -- The federal government has added a net 277,500 employees since September 2006 and raised average salaries 17.3% — or 5.3% after adjusting for inflation. The following is a list of 100 federal occupations, how many people have those positions and how pay has changed in the past five years, after adjusting for inflation. It does not include the value of benefits. Sometimes average pay rises or falls because of retirements and new hires. For example, the average pay of federal auto mechanics fell because retiring mechanics made more than new ones.