Then how come they can't afford to pay them a decent wage? Look at CSU and how much a grounds keeper gets payed. They can't even make a house payment on those wages and they expect 110%. They may be lean but even the unions don't stand up for them when it comes to wages. Our state legislators should be payed what they make. Also, if the legislators go on part time, they should should get part time wages. All they do is cost us money anyway.
1) The RC2 account has little idea of the pay scale for unskilled labor in the CSU system.
2) The RC2 account has little idea of ratio of the unskilled, public rate to the minimum wage (private sector unskilled labor rate).
In case you were wondering, an R05 (groundsworker) starts at $15.47/hr + benefits and minimum wage is currently $7.50 an hour w/o bennies.