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Ever since I began posting complete lists of public school teachers' salaries, I've been getting scores of irate letters from teachers or their union shills.
They have become so tiresome in their predictability.
After characterizing the work of a school marm as being something more grueling than that of the a Gulag-era Kolymian gold miner, they then say that teachers deserve a "living wage" or "a decent salary."
The last one who wrote this, just today, worked at Skokie's Niles West High School where a $230k gym teacher is the highest paid gym teacher in the state, if not the nation. Salaries at her public school in modest Skokie are only surpassed by those in opulent Lake Forest.
And it's just not government school employees.
Today the Illinois Policy Institute released its exhaustive study on public sector v. private sector salaries in Illinois.
Would it surprise you to learn that government employees make lots more?
The Illinois Policy Institute report showed:
---Compensation per state government employee averaged $69,500, which is 23 percent more than the private sector worker average of $56,500. Much of the difference was in employer-paid benefits, which were more than 1.5 times that of private employees. State employees received 16 percent more in wages and salaries than private employees.
---Compensation per local government employee averaged $63,100, which is 12 percent more than the private sector worker average of $56,500. Much of the difference was in employer-paid benefits, which were more than 1.5 times that of private employees. Local government employees received 4 percent more in wages and salaries than private employees.
Take a look at this brief introductory video and then read the synopsis of the IPI study right here.
Then the next time a government worker starts bleating to you about his backbreaking conditions and need for a simple "living wage" ---
-- you'll know what to say.
Isn't it disgusting?! And we're supposed to believe that they took government jobs because they're so pure-hearted, and not because it pays better and has better benefits. The "little guy" they claim to be for, is actually the one who's back they're breaking.
ReplyDeleteAnd they keep saying it's not enough. Sheesh.
The IL Education Association -- the biggest lying propagandists since Hitler's Joseph Goebbels, ran an ad this year with a teacher saying, "you take a little bit less in salary because you expect to get a decent pension in your older years."
ReplyDeleteWhat crap!!
They get higher salaries and vastly higher pensions -- than the people who they are supposed to be serving.
The only thing more disconcerting than public workers abusing the taxpayer and destroying our economy (too much money to worthless overhead) is that the taxpayers don't seem to care too much. They did not stand for this same thing in 1776. Same story. Different characters. Why do we take it now?
ReplyDeleteExcellent point. The people of Illinois -- Chicago in particular, just seem to be sheep. Altho, in Chicago, it may be that now there are more people getting a government check than there are people paying taxes.
ReplyDeleteI think the Founding Fathers warned of that.