Why is it that people who work in government positions. earn more money than working in the private sector.?

Question

It's becoming more noticable year after year
the people employed by the public service are
in a better situation than the workers of the
private sector in wages, securaty, and benifits.
This is beyond the balance of tollerance and
should be regulated by income of the private
service. Why should a person working in the
private service, pay more taxes to pay a person
more, doing the same or lessor job in the public service.It seems the best paying jobs in the future will be Teachers, Police, Fire, & other services. This doesn't make sense to me.

Answer 1

Where are you? This is certainly not the case in Australia.

Answer 2

Public workers, for the most part, aren't paid better wages.

They do excellent benefits though, particularly healthcare and retirement.

It's mostly because government is not concerned with making profit, and therefore government administrators are more willing to spend more money on employees. Government spending doesn't work like the private sector, because it isn't affected by the same variables.

In the private sector, the goal is to make money, and therefore the employers try to pay their employees as little as possible (for a given supply of workers and whatnot).

And it actually makes perfect sense that we would pay people like teachers and firefighters a lot of money. Teaching is one of the most important jobs in existence, and firefighting is an absolute necessity. Those are the sorts of people upon whom civilization depends; they're *worth* the expenditure.

Answer 3

It depends upon the actual career. Clerical professions tend to have better pay in Government positions, but highly technical professions tend to have better pay in the private sector.

That's why the military has an easy time keeping clerks and the like for 20+ years, but has a hard time keeping electronic and computer specialists more than 4-8 years.

And I doubt that Teachers will EVER be one of the best pyaig jobs - history has shown that.

Answer 4

Do you really imagine that someone working in an office is more important than someone who educates children, saves houses from buring down, rescues grandparents from fires, arrests vicious criminals, and so on? Wow, you have your priorities all wrong. Anyway, you are wrong on the first count, people who work in the ''private sector'' as you put it are much more highly paid - it just depends what they do. Sure, if you compare a secretary with an ambulance driver, then the ambulance driver should be paid more, and why not. Anyway, what's the beef?

Answer 5

HUH???? I don't know where you're getting your salary info from, but everything I've ever known is the exact opposite. Working for the government pays less, but usually has better benefits than working in the private sector, but the salary difference one can make by succeeding in the private sector more than makes up the benefit package.