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30% seems too high. We have ~3.5 million directly employed by all levels of government [1], and a labour force of ~19 million [2] [1] http://www40.statcan.ca/l

• cheez 15y ago
  I'm only counting full-time employees. I don't have numbers on full/part-time work of government employees so I'm using the basis that $53K average salary[1] implies that nearly most are full-time, given that the average income overall is about that amount (edit: wow, it's totally not[4]). Some more information. The average hourly wage for full-time employees is $24.72 across the entire population [2]. The same data shows that the average hourly wage for both part-time (25 and older) and full time is $24.89. This is not apples to apples, just giving you some expectation on what you can expect for a professional workforce that works both part-time and full-time. Assuming, then, that full time is 2000 hours (40hrs/week*50weeks), the average hourly wage for part-time and full-time government employees works out to $26.55 [3]. So based on that information, I am comfortable saying that an insignificant number of government employees are part-time or they are excessively overpaid. Further, I am then comfortable saying that 27% of the Canadian full-time workforce works directly for the government. Not good for progress. Edit: updated 100 times to clarify. [1] http://www40.statcan.ca/l01/cst01/govt62a-eng.htm http://www40.statcan.ca/l01/cst01/govt62a-eng.htm [2] http://www40.statcan.gc.ca/l01/cst01/labr69a-eng.htm http://www40.statcan.gc.ca/l01/cst01/labr69a-eng.htm [3] http://www40.statcan.gc.ca/l01/cst01/govt62a-eng.htm http://www40.statcan.gc.ca/l01/cst01/govt62a-eng.htm [4] http://www40.statcan.ca/l01/cst01/famil21a-eng.htm http://www40.statcan.ca/l01/cst01/famil21a-eng.htm