If it's really on the basis of job performance, I've got no problem. Superior work deserves superior pay, both in the private and public sectors.
Considering that public sector employees get better pay and bennies than their private sector counterparts, hows about we just tell the folks in the public sector that they get to keep their great wages and bennies, and give the surplus back to the people who generated it?
What does Government “produce”?
It provides protection and safety (cops and fire), courts and teachers, but what do the other 75% of Government bureaucrats “make”.
Nothing. Zero. They are on the expense side of the ledger, for life, with big fat pensions they didn’t pay for and great healthcare programs that would cost the private citizen $10-20K per year, which they and their families get for free.
Nice work if you can get it.
Agreed.
My Indiana company made signifacant personnel cuts in the pat three years and that left the rest of us to keep up with the work. Last year was a fantastic year and we got our best bonuses in the history of the company.
Public sector wages and benefits should be in line with those of the private sector, or else you’re at risk of losing talent or overspending (either way). Big corporations hire analysts to perform internal and external wage and benefit audits to determine what the market is paying.
If Indiana state employees have earned a bonus (and $1000 doesn’t sound big, depending on the salary), the so be it. I don’t hate public employees, I just think they should neither be kings nor slaves.
The problem with bonuses for gub’mint employees based on job performance is that it can quickly turn into a partisan bonus.
Just remember the pendulum swings both ways. Put a lib in charge, and bonuses will be flying fast and furious for those who support the lib agenda.
It stinks.