You read every day about the private sector laying off thousands of workers - no furlough, no “cut in hours during the crisis.”
To the whiney state worker who “this isn’t supposed to happen to” - welcome to the NFL.
My guess is the bulk of the salary dollars go to highly paid “administrators” and department heads who are generally appointed political hacks who do nothing except pull in high paying salaries and extravagant benefits at the taxpayer’s expense. Rank and file government beaurocrats generally receieve low salaries commensurate with expectations from them.