How Much Are State and Local Government Workers Overpaid?
Posted by freedomforall 3 months, 2 weeks ago to Government
Excerpt:
"Employer Cost Synopsis
Government Wages Plus Benefits: $61.27
Private Wages and Benefits: $43.78
Government Wages: $37.90
Private Wages: $30.76
Government hourly wages are 23.2 percent more than private workers on average.
Benefits are the real killer.
Government total compensation is 39.9 percent more than private workers.
What About Teachers?
Employer costs from the BLS, chart by Mish
Teachers make $52.29 per hour in direct wages. But they make a whopping $79.38 per hour in total benefits.
Benefits for teachers are an addition 52 percent of wages."
"Employer Cost Synopsis
Government Wages Plus Benefits: $61.27
Private Wages and Benefits: $43.78
Government Wages: $37.90
Private Wages: $30.76
Government hourly wages are 23.2 percent more than private workers on average.
Benefits are the real killer.
Government total compensation is 39.9 percent more than private workers.
What About Teachers?
Employer costs from the BLS, chart by Mish
Teachers make $52.29 per hour in direct wages. But they make a whopping $79.38 per hour in total benefits.
Benefits for teachers are an addition 52 percent of wages."
how much they have interfered with productivity of others, 1000% is probably
more accurate.
D.C. NIFO
the teachers are mostly no worth their pay
thanks to their unions not giving a damn about kids (in the words of the teacher unions president years ago)
They are leftist useful idiots, propagandists, deserving of just compensation for ruining the minds and productive promise of young people.