Who says government jobs don't pay?

With Federal employees whose compensation averages more than $126,000 a year and the nation’s greatest concentration of lawyers (many of whom do government related work),   Washington DC edges out San Jose as the wealthiest U.S. metropolitan area, government data shows. I can think of no better example of the arrogation of power to the central government and its distasteful consequences.  The message should be to young people to take risk and start businesses and try new things. An increasingly Leviathan state is antithetical to those very notions.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-19/beltway-earnings-make-u-s-capital-richer-than-silicon-valley.html