Every non-military government employee should be bypassing “raises” based on cost of living adjustments because of this economic mess.
Most businesses are not raising salaries this year. Therefore most government employees shouldn’t see raises either.
Frankly I don’t care how much this joker gets paid, because any “government employee” that is also in a union works against this countrys best interests.
Government employee unions are the one protesting at every level of government any time budgets NEED to be cut. It is the “weight” of these unions that keep driving our country further and further into the red.
We did an analysis of expenses vs. revenues. The revenues have flat lined for the past five years. The expenses escalate because of salaries and benefits. Since everything else has been cut (equipment, vehicles, materials,) workforce is the only place left.
To be fair, in our county the largest salary is $150,000. We were finding that some of our lower level personnel actually qualified for state income assistance. In public health nurses, for instance, a begining graduate nurese was making about $20,000 more in the private sector than a PH nurse of 30 years experience. Personnel were leaving for jobs with other counties that had less responsibility and were paying several tens of thousands of dollars more.