[quote=AN][quote=sdrealtor]A line worker is one who works in production or at a staff level position. Not a management position responsible for a dept or with employees below them they are reponsible for. Its not a derogatory description and so nice of you to try to make it sound so. If anything its a very clinical term.
While you are here CAR instead of being noticably absent from this thread do you think a $250K household income is a normal reasonable income for a couple of young 30ish public sector employees? Additionally as you often claim public sector workers are underpaid relative to the private sector do you think they’d be making over 300K in the private sector as non-business owners or SR management? You do realize that income puts them in the top 1 or 2 % of wage earners in the country and thats without considering the generous retirement contributions made on their behalf.[/quote]
I’d love to see data to back up the claim that public employees make much less than private employees for the same position. Base on my anecdotal, I don’t see it. When I graduated many years ago, classmates who got into SPAWAR were getting paid just as much as those who got jobs in the private sector. AFAIK, nurses at VA hospital is making about the same as nurses at Scripps. Nurses at UCSD is making more than nurses at Scripps. Nurses at Scripps are making more than nurses at Sharp.[/quote]
Hmmm…
I call shenigans on that one AN. Had an offer and turned it down cold. I have a great aunt and uncle over there (uncles retired with damn good pension) and they told me good things about the place including the 9 to 5 and nothing more but I did not find it even close to competive in terms of earnings…
I think I would have liked the job though… Back then it was called something like NAVSPAWAR or something else longer…
