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It sounds to me like a big part of the problem here is public service wage compression. Someone starts their career working in the public service on a subway p
by cperciva 4y ago
It sounds to me like a big part of the problem here is public service wage compression. Someone starts their career working in the public service on a subway project earning say $80k/year. Ten years later, they know a lot about building subways, and they're being paid $120k/year... but if they jump to the private sector, they can get $250k/year as a subway building consultant. Surprise surprise, the public sector ends up never having any in-house expertise.
If you have a recurring problem of "every time we start a new project we find that everyone with relevant expertise has left", you need to pay your experts more!
- no1groyp 4y agoThen what’s the difference? They pay the consulting persons salary either way.
- cperciva 4y agoSure, but what the consultant gets paid is only a fraction of what the consulting company gets paid.
- no1groyp 4y agoAnd then the ‘consulting company’ (your friendly feds) raise your taxes even more than they paid the consultant. The solution isn’t obvious
- archgoon 4y ago[dead]
- enkid 4y agoA consultant's incentives are not the same as a government employee's incentives.
- Schiendelman 4y agoAnd neither of them are aligned with actually moving the most people with good quality service. You only get that from semi private entities like the various Japan Rail.
- hackrnusr 4y agoOr how about increase taxes so that private sector salaries get compressed back down to their public sector counterparts? That way you'll have more money for even bigger boondoggles.