[quote=CA renter] Most of the public employees that I know (and I know quite a few of them from multiple public agencies) have been taking pay and benefit cuts for YEARS. So, where are you getting the information that the **compensation per employee** is rising faster than population growth/productivity/inflation? And I want to see data that goes back decades, well before 2000, for the reasons stated in my post above (no cherry picking the top of the stock market when public employers were paying little to NOTHING toward their employees pension costs because the funds were OVER-funded).
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So I went to the cities budget page to see if I could find the data. I did find it but it doesn’t go back decades. I went ahead and looked at environmental services as it’s a pretty large piece of the city and an area where we like to think privitazation and charging for trash pick up are solutions. So here’s what I found.
In 2003 the further the data goes back Environment services had 510.37 positions with a total personal budget of 32,827,675 or $64,321/employee. In 2013 that budget is 414 employees with a total personal budget of 38,178,388 or about $92,218/employee. That looks pretty close to an average of about 50% more per employee in the last 10 years. Pretty much lines up with exactly as I said. Now I’ll ask you to provide specific data about why I’m wrong. Something more than your stories about people you know. Here is a link to the data I used.
