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As a California tax payer, I appreciate these sunshine reports. Calling them a hit piece reveals you too have some sort of bias or axe to grind. Government wor

As a California tax payer, I appreciate these sunshine reports. Calling them a hit piece reveals you too have some sort of bias or axe to grind. Government work was supposed to be fairly compensated with pension and benefits, while avoiding the instability risks of the private sector. Now we are told it has all the stability plus super generous pensions and salary that would make the best workers in the private sector jealous. It reveals the obscene corruption of our political class runs through the entire system.

siromega 6y ago
“ Now we are told it has all the stability plus super generous pensions and salary that would make the best workers in the private sector jealous.” Well, considering that most private sector workers don’t have pensions anymore, it probably would make them jealous. In the private sector they’ve all been replaced with 401ks and maybe a feeble matching of a few thousand dollars from your employer. The way I look at it is, public sector jobs are probably what private sector jobs in America would look like if employee compensation didn’t divorce productivity gains starting in the 1980s. Which is why they look so generous by comparison.
dragonwriter 6y ago
> Calling them a hit piece reveals you too have some sort of bias or axe to grind. No, because it is, in fact, a hit piece. Were it, instead, an attempt to provide a useful picture on which people could form an informed understanding, here are things it would provide information on that it does not: * What proportion of the surveyed workforce does this over-$100k population represent, * How does the pay of the highlighted population compare to that of private sector and/or other-state employees doing similar work with similar qualifications. This doesn't even rise to the level of cherry picking facts to paint a biased narrative, since there isn't even a narrative here. It's cherry-picking decontextualized factoids to provoke a emotional reaction. > Now we are told it has all the stability plus super generous pensions and salary that would make the best workers in the private sector jealous. $100k salary plus public sector benefits wouldn't make the best workers in the private sector jealous. A lot for this is public agency CEOs and other executives making quite a lot for generic “workers” but much less than private sector executives,and public sector workforces being management heavy because a lot of the operations are contracted out. And the isolated unique individuals which are pointed to, there's consistently no analysis or explanation of the specific circumstances producing the unusually high compensation. And that's because if they did that, it would undercut the emotional response the entire piece is careful geared to provoke by avoiding context.

siromega 6y ago

“ Now we are told it has all the stability plus super generous pensions and salary that would make the best workers in the private sector jealous.” Well, considering that most private sector workers don’t have pensions anymore, it probably would make them jealous. In the private sector they’ve all been replaced with 401ks and maybe a feeble matching of a few thousand dollars from your employer. The way I look at it is, public sector jobs are probably what private sector jobs in America would look like if employee compensation didn’t divorce productivity gains starting in the 1980s. Which is why they look so generous by comparison.

dragonwriter 6y ago

> Calling them a hit piece reveals you too have some sort of bias or axe to grind. No, because it is, in fact, a hit piece. Were it, instead, an attempt to provide a useful picture on which people could form an informed understanding, here are things it would provide information on that it does not: * What proportion of the surveyed workforce does this over-$100k population represent, * How does the pay of the highlighted population compare to that of private sector and/or other-state employees doing similar work with similar qualifications. This doesn't even rise to the level of cherry picking facts to paint a biased narrative, since there isn't even a narrative here. It's cherry-picking decontextualized factoids to provoke a emotional reaction. > Now we are told it has all the stability plus super generous pensions and salary that would make the best workers in the private sector jealous. $100k salary plus public sector benefits wouldn't make the best workers in the private sector jealous. A lot for this is public agency CEOs and other executives making quite a lot for generic “workers” but much less than private sector executives,and public sector workforces being management heavy because a lot of the operations are contracted out. And the isolated unique individuals which are pointed to, there's consistently no analysis or explanation of the specific circumstances producing the unusually high compensation. And that's because if they did that, it would undercut the emotional response the entire piece is careful geared to provoke by avoiding context.