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> Municipal employment has eaten up a large share. Salaries and benefits account for almost 45 percent of the budget, averaging $175,004 per employee, in a city
by ENOTTY 6y ago
> Municipal employment has eaten up a large share. Salaries and benefits account for almost 45 percent of the budget, averaging $175,004 per employee, in a city where median household income is $96,265.
This is not fair. Comparing salaries + benefits to income is an apples to oranges comparison.
- tyrust 6y agoThe article was filled with apples and oranges comparisons. I'm sure that there are legitimate points to be made, but it's hard to take seriously when then piece is so slanted.
- jxramos 6y agoThey're kind of in the orbit of one another. One quantifies the near total cost of funding an individual public employee from that municipality vs the entire household income of a family living in said municipality who presumably contributes towards funding that one individual. That household certainly doesn't pay for that municipal individual's total compensation from their benefits dollars but rather from their income.
- cissou 6y agoIt's at least directional. In the other direction, a household is typically more than one income, whereas $175k is a per employee figure.