I would think a way to discern this, is that absolute cash in hand, private makes more. Public, if you add in the non-cash benefits, makes more. The argument ho

I would think a way to discern this, is that absolute cash in hand, private makes more. Public, if you add in the non-cash benefits, makes more. The argument however, of what I was making, is that if attrition destroys the understood contract of the non-cash benefits, Public would make significantly less and be less able to attract good talent. We are already seeing that with regards to K-12 teaching profession in many states. I was asked to cite sources; kindly at that after respectful disagreement. After some searching, determined that answering that was going to be extremely partisan, and refused to answer the question at hand of "citation needed". And your suggested answer seems to be what the hordes on reddit kind of, not really, sort of agreed to. In the end, even on reddit, it was back and forth 50% one way, and the other.