The average annual compensation for a worker in the state of Washington is $47770.
The average annual compensation for a worker in the state of Mississippi is $33570.
If I were to use these statistics to claim that Washington workers were unfairly compensated v. workers in Mississippi, wouldn’t you say that there are many reasons for this disparity? And, I would agree that it is meaningless to compare average worker compensation without making numerous adjustments (age, education, occupation, location, etc.).
So why do you post meaningless comparisons of private v. public sector wages?
They aren’t meaningless. They are totally relevant to the taxpayer.
A private sector job generally doesn’t depend 100% on the taxes of the citizenry. A public sector job DOES depend 100% on the taxation of the citizenry. When the “public sector” is paid more than the “private sector”, I believe something is seriously wrong. Such as situation says the government worker (the one who lives off taxes) is worth MORE than the private worker (the one who PAYS the entire salary of the government worker).
Geographic differentiations (spelling?)in pay are accounted for in both private and public sector jobs—so I don’t know what difference that makes.
As I said earlier, the federal bureaucracy has permeated the whole width and length of our nation. We must cut it back—BIG TIME.
The Framers did envision a bureaucracy of this size, and we shouldn’t either.