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Originally Posted by Lucy - CSC
Government workers on average get paid less than Private workers. Keep watching Fox and the Murdoch media as they love to vilify the government workers from teachers to police.
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In our small city (pop. 79k) - a starting level constable makes $82,000 plus full benefits. A large number of those constables voluntarily sign up for "special duty" assignments and boost that salary to over $100k/yr. (they make $70/hr. on "special duty").
I've yet to see private sector workers make anywhere close to that.
The "sunshine list" (gov't workers who make over $100k) for our region has grown by 70% in the past three years.
Meanwhile, our manufacturing industry has been completely decimated in the past decade. Every major manufacturing company in the area has closed shop and gone south. Former factory workers are now working 2-3 service/hospitality industry jobs at barely minimum wage to barely make ends meet - those fortunate enough to even find jobs.