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| kbp | Aug 10 2010, 04:54 PM Post #1 |
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Federal Employees Earn 30 to 40 Percent More than Private-Sector Workers, Study Finds snip On average, federal employees earn 60 percent more than the average private sector employee – $79,000 vs. $50,000 respectively. Add in retirement and health care benefits and that gap grows to 85 percent. snip “Including non-cash benefits adds to this disparity. The average private-sector employer pays $9,882 per employee in annual benefits, while the federal government pays an average of $32,115 per employee,” the study found. The Heritage report also found that government jobs – in addition to being more lucrative – are almost impossible to lose. Despite a national unemployment rate that remained at 9.5 percent, federal employment has grown during the recession. snip |
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| Baldo | Aug 10 2010, 06:13 PM Post #2 |
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We don't control our government, the public employees control us. It is terrible in California. I discuss this with a head of an engineering firm and a retired city engineer. They agreed and said it applies to surveyors also. Public employees make more than private employees and it is killing our budgets. If we only reduced public employees compensation to the level of private industry we probably could go a long way to balancing budgets. If we had one. |
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| kbp | Aug 10 2010, 06:39 PM Post #3 |
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It used to be that public employees got less pay, more benefits & security (make work!). Now it's more pay, more benefits and still make work. |
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