More than 800,000 federal employees aren’t getting paid during the shutdown, though more than half of them are deemed essential to public safety and are still at work while the rest are furloughed. Federal employees will probably receive back pay once the government reopens, but thousands of people paid through government contracts, such as the cleaning crews that maintain the departments, aren’t likely to recover the money they aren’t paid during the shutdown.
Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times