So much for the "low paying government jobs keeps good people away."
Should the federal wages be brought in line with the private sector wages? I say Yes!
From USA Today --
Sometimes the easiest way to find a job that pays well is to ask a wealthy relative to hire you. For many, that relative is Uncle Sam.
Federal workers, on average, are paid almost 50% more than employees in the private sector, an Asbury Park Press analysis of salary data shows.
The average federal worker made $59,864 in 2005, compared with the average salary of $40,505 in the private sector, according to the latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
And that pay gap appears to have widened in the first nine months of 2006. More...
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Federal workers are mostly union and they were given a relatively modest 3% pay raise over the last 6 years.
ReplyDeleteYour average corporate employee has no union protection.. baby you're on your own. As such, wages for the private sector have been flat the past 6 years. Zero, zilch, nada.
Plus health care costs are being pushed on private sector employees so that the raise you didn't get will have to go farther.
Top pay in the govt is what $400k for president Bush? Yahoo's CEO Terry Semel got $71mil last year while his company floundered and he was eventually dismissed,
Govt jobs use to be modest paying job people often took to perform, get this, Civil Service! That type of job - modest pay increase, job stability, benefits now sounds like worker nirvana.
BHS to SF.
I think we are getting slowly closer to the day when the majority of the country is employed by some kind of government office.
ReplyDeleteNot to be out done by the federal govt's ability to fill it's ranks with cronies and incompetents, the California state GOP goes one better: illegal immigrants!
ReplyDeleteFrom the SF Chronicle
"The Chronicle reported this month that the state Republican Party also recently applied for, and received, an H-1B visa to fill the job of political director and hired a Canadian, Christopher Matthews -- who has never run a California campaign, to take over as deputy political director and head of technology at the party.
With Congress embroiled in a national debate on immigration legislation, the news that top California Republican Party officials had been involved in two questionable immigration-related hires concerned party activists. "
Nice.
BHS to SF.
If you monitor the most of the conservative bloggers in this area, you will see most of us are against scamnesty policies.
ReplyDeleteOur own, Little George Voinobitch is having a hard time figuring out what to do.... Go figure!
I can sense your a little more liberal than me. That's cool, I like the counter views and remarks. But I am the type of person, that although conservative and a republican, refuse to defend someone just because they are republican.
Just because a candidate has an "R" after their name does not mean they will get my vote. I say as "D" can stand for dummy, "R" can also stand for retard. Taft, Blackwell and Voinobitch are three good examples.
Hiring someone with no experience and never ran a political campaign... sounds like the GOP in CA is much alike the RPCC & ORP.