Top 20 pensioners cite city service

[KSMountain]

I agree with you sdduude. I don’t like skulduggery with public money, nor kickbacks. And I don’t like unions, sorry.

I did like your dike example though. 🙂

I think if you take the top 20 folks in almost any endeavor, a cursory glance at their salaries would be surprising, and you might initially think they were shockingly unjustified. Imagine what the top 20 plastic surgeons make…

But isn’t this called “selection bias”? Of course the numbers were large, they were the top 20! What about all the rest of the folks? How many folks are drawing a pension from the city of SD? 100,000? 500,000? What’s the mean and standard deviation of their payouts?

Now of course that’s much less sensational and less fun to grouse about, but statistically more relevant I think.

I think we need to be careful when considering making policy decisions based on some small number of folks we want to “target”. That’s how you end up with things like the AMT.

[jficquette]

[quote=CA renter][quote=pjwal]This makes me sick to my stomach. Some joke IT dinosaur, that probably worked most his life fixing printer problems, whom made it “all the way up” to Director if IT (where most of his job still consisted of fixing printer problems) is now sitting pretty on a 139k/year pension. It’s not he was actually really challenged with a budget or had to worry about profitably at all during his career. Not like he actually had to innovate or keep his skill set up with changing technology. Not like he actually worked weekends or ever averaged more than 38 hours per week.[/quote]

Some pretty bold assumptions there.

I’ve worked in both private and public sectors, and can say for a fact that the standards for public workers are higher than for those in the private sector. Also, there is additional liability in the public sector that is not there in the private sector, which is why they have to hire better qualified candidates in the first place.[/quote]

Do you have an example of a job in the public sector where the requirments are higher than for a similar job in private industry?

Are the requirments neccessary or just designed to weed out anyone that doesn’t have prior government experience or of a certain race or sex?

[jficquette]

[quote=CA renter][quote=pjwal]This makes me sick to my stomach. Some joke IT dinosaur, that probably worked most his life fixing printer problems, whom made it “all the way up” to Director if IT (where most of his job still consisted of fixing printer problems) is now sitting pretty on a 139k/year pension. It’s not he was actually really challenged with a budget or had to worry about profitably at all during his career. Not like he actually had to innovate or keep his skill set up with changing technology. Not like he actually worked weekends or ever averaged more than 38 hours per week.[/quote]

Some pretty bold assumptions there.

I’ve worked in both private and public sectors, and can say for a fact that the standards for public workers are higher than for those in the private sector. Also, there is additional liability in the public sector that is not there in the private sector, which is why they have to hire better qualified candidates in the first place.[/quote]

Do you have an example of a job in the public sector where the requirments are higher than for a similar job in private industry?

Are the requirments neccessary or just designed to weed out anyone that doesn’t have prior government experience or of a certain race or sex?

[jficquette]

[quote=CA renter][quote=pjwal]This makes me sick to my stomach. Some joke IT dinosaur, that probably worked most his life fixing printer problems, whom made it “all the way up” to Director if IT (where most of his job still consisted of fixing printer problems) is now sitting pretty on a 139k/year pension. It’s not he was actually really challenged with a budget or had to worry about profitably at all during his career. Not like he actually had to innovate or keep his skill set up with changing technology. Not like he actually worked weekends or ever averaged more than 38 hours per week.[/quote]

Some pretty bold assumptions there.

I’ve worked in both private and public sectors, and can say for a fact that the standards for public workers are higher than for those in the private sector. Also, there is additional liability in the public sector that is not there in the private sector, which is why they have to hire better qualified candidates in the first place.[/quote]

Do you have an example of a job in the public sector where the requirments are higher than for a similar job in private industry?

Are the requirments neccessary or just designed to weed out anyone that doesn’t have prior government experience or of a certain race or sex?

[jficquette]

[quote=CA renter][quote=pjwal]This makes me sick to my stomach. Some joke IT dinosaur, that probably worked most his life fixing printer problems, whom made it “all the way up” to Director if IT (where most of his job still consisted of fixing printer problems) is now sitting pretty on a 139k/year pension. It’s not he was actually really challenged with a budget or had to worry about profitably at all during his career. Not like he actually had to innovate or keep his skill set up with changing technology. Not like he actually worked weekends or ever averaged more than 38 hours per week.[/quote]

Some pretty bold assumptions there.

I’ve worked in both private and public sectors, and can say for a fact that the standards for public workers are higher than for those in the private sector. Also, there is additional liability in the public sector that is not there in the private sector, which is why they have to hire better qualified candidates in the first place.[/quote]

Do you have an example of a job in the public sector where the requirments are higher than for a similar job in private industry?

Are the requirments neccessary or just designed to weed out anyone that doesn’t have prior government experience or of a certain race or sex?

[jficquette]

[quote=CA renter][quote=pjwal]This makes me sick to my stomach. Some joke IT dinosaur, that probably worked most his life fixing printer problems, whom made it “all the way up” to Director if IT (where most of his job still consisted of fixing printer problems) is now sitting pretty on a 139k/year pension. It’s not he was actually really challenged with a budget or had to worry about profitably at all during his career. Not like he actually had to innovate or keep his skill set up with changing technology. Not like he actually worked weekends or ever averaged more than 38 hours per week.[/quote]

Some pretty bold assumptions there.

I’ve worked in both private and public sectors, and can say for a fact that the standards for public workers are higher than for those in the private sector. Also, there is additional liability in the public sector that is not there in the private sector, which is why they have to hire better qualified candidates in the first place.[/quote]

Do you have an example of a job in the public sector where the requirments are higher than for a similar job in private industry?

Are the requirments neccessary or just designed to weed out anyone that doesn’t have prior government experience or of a certain race or sex?

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