Posted on 11/19/2010 11:17:05 AM PST by MichCapCon
Local government and state workers’ average weekly pay surpassed that of private sector workers in Michigan in 2009, according to an analysis done by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.
From 2001 to 2009, state workers have seen their average weekly pay jump 33 percent from $796 to $1,058. Local government workers had a 29 percent increase from $647 to $837. Meanwhile, the private sector workers had a 14 percent increase from $722 to $824.
James Hohman, a fiscal policy analyst with the Mackinac Center, did the analysis using data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics.
“The private sector has been struggling this decade. That’s not news,” Hohman said. “The public sector keeps increasing. … The public sector compensation is growing beyond the private sector’s ability to pay for it.”
“You might expect wages to decrease given the state’s poor economy. But wage rates have been robust. Indeed, they’ve even increased in this past decade while the state has lost nearly a million jobs. But the growth of Michigan’s public sector employee wages has outpaced those of the private sector,” Hohman wrote in an e-mail...
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And they keep adding more government workers too. I can’t wait to here the MEA start screaming about how great they teach are kids and that they are getting a pay cut. In truth it will probably only be a wage freeze at the inflated amount.
The MEA is a criminal group in my opinion and should be fired. Michigan ranks way down the list for student achievement between the states, and the U.S. is at the bottom of the industrial countries. These government employees make me sick.
No problem. The government can just take $15 an hour in taxes out of my $10 an hour paycheck. That should help those poor, poor government workers who have to slave for minutes a day to earn their $120,000 a year...
I have always said that we should pay all elected office holders, and those appointed to office on commission. For example, Congressmen would be paid the average wage in the U.S., minus the rate of inflation, the unemployement rate, the prime interest rate, the trade deficit, and the % of the public on wellfare. The same bill would of coarse have to prohibit passage of any “supplemental” pay bills. When the economy is bad, they would suffer along with the rest of us.
If I were benevolent dictator for the day, I would also roll their portion of the federal pension fund into S.S. and they would be forced to enroll. I would also identify every congressman and senator still alive that ever voted to tax or reduce S.S. benefits, seize their pensions and roll them onto S.S. (rant over).
From 2001 to 2009, state workers have seen their average weekly pay jump 33 percent from $796 to $1,058. Local government workers had a 29 percent increase from $647 to $837. Meanwhile, the private sector workers had a 14 percent increase from $722 to $824.
Just piling on ...
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