News from EPI: Pennsylvania public-sector workers not overcompensated, EPI study finds: A new Economic Policy Institute study released today finds that full-time state and local government employees in Pennsylvania are not overcompensated, when compared to otherwise similar private-sector workers. Pennsylvania public employees’ hourly compensation costs are a statistically insignificant 2.1 percent lower than that of private-sector employees.That's a local note, but it's consistent with the findings of most similar studies. Republicans are trying to paint public workers as unfairly and grossly overcompensated, but generally speaking, they're not.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Pennsylvania public workers not overcompensated
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Something similar came out in the middle of the whole Wisconsin debacle. I think the part I found saddest was the reaction of private sector workers who bought the whole "overcompensated" line. One man interviewed complained basically that "I don't have X, Y, and Z benefits, so why should they, just because they have unions?" To me, the answer seems obvious: private sector workers should fight to get those benefits they so envy.
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