Facts About Michigan's Public Sector

Mackinac Center for Public Policy ^ | 10/15/2011 | Mackinac Center

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Employment Figures

Michigan Civil Service: 50,799 Local Public Educational: 175,973 Total State and Local: 411,659 University and Community College: 60,544 Imputed Local Government: 124,343

Public Sector vs. Private Sector

Bringing public-employee benefits in line with private-sector averages would save $5.7 billion in Michigan.

Public-sector bargaining privileges are not inalienable rights.

Public-sector wages and benefits have increased while the private-sector's have fallen.

Insurance benefits per public-sector employee are $7,149 more per year than in the private sector.

Retirement benefits per public-sector employee are $11,725 more per year than in the private sector.

Since the early 2000s, state and local government jobs as a percentage of total Michigan employment increased from around 13 percent to a high of 15.5 percent in 2009.

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I wish someone would ask a person who works in the private sector how they “like” paying so much in taxes to support people in the “public” sector. Do they enjoy working until they are 70, so that Tony Soprano’s garbagemen can retire at 50? And how dare you have questions, because “da boss don’t like no questions axed”.