08-25-2010, 12:45 AM
Mini 9 wrote: Average gubmint employee makes $123,000 per year.
Their pay and benefits averaged $123,049 in 2009, up 36.9 percent since 2000. Private workers averaged $61,051, up just 8.8 percent during the same time.
Governments at all levels have been contracting out more and more of the work handled by blue-collar and entry-level employees. It's not really a cost-cutting measure, but a philosophical one.
For example, an unemployed buddy of mine temps when he can, and he spent a couple weeks in the county clerk's office during the last local election. He's not a government employee. You contract out those warm-body positions, yeah, you're left with more managerial positions.
Some government employees don't earn their salary. The same is true in private enterprise. It's not often somebody leaves the private sector job because they'll make a lot more as a government employee. It's usually in the other direction.