Want better pay and earlier retirement? A new study from the Fraser Institute indicates the public sector offers both compared to private sector jobs in Ontario.
According to the study, public sector workers retire just over a year earlier, on average than their private sector counterparts.
They earn almost 14 per cent more in average wages and 77 per cent are covered by registered pension plans.
The study’s co-author Jason Clemens told the National Post if the Ontario government is serious about tackling the deficit, compensation will have to be a focal point.
Clemens said long-term contracts are problem for not just Ontario, but North-American governments faced with rising costs and slowing economies.
The Post reported the Fraser Institute will issue its own recommendations in a month, suggesting government pay be tied to similar jobs and wages in the private sector.
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Fraser Institute is a PC think tank, and this study just serves the purpose of PC’s agenda!
I dont agree with many of the statements above. Ontario public sector employee salaries have been frozen for the last five years. Most of them never got increases in last few years. Whereas most private sector employees got increases during this period. Retiring a year earlier is no big deal but the data seems to be based on people who have been there for years together in public sector. Those who join public sector now does not have such benefits. There are various other studies which show that senior management in public sector is paid much lower than private sector. The difference in public sector is that the salaries are published on a sunshine list whereas in private sector it is never published. It is the lower level jobs in private sector which is underpaid compared to government jobs.
In my experience the customer service in public sector is way better than calling a call centre of our major cellphone/cable companies.
Efficiency in public sector is not always totally linked to employees, it is mostly political indecisions and stalemates which makes the public sector ineffective. It is the dysfunctional political decisions which our elected representatives make that make public sector employees incompetent. If politicians are not allowed to hire personal staff at government cost, it will in itself reduce huge amount of government wasteful spending. If there is no political interference public sector employees can produce better results.
Why does a study have to be done to tell the public that government employees make more money and have a full pension at the end of the rainbow? These lazy government employees have it too easy. They do the same work and get a raise and a big fat bonus on top of what they already make. Does the quality of the work they do improve? NO.
A bit from my personal experience: An MTO desk employee answering her cell phone to take a private call, while the customer line is out the door. The apprenticeship office that deals with the skilled trades, forgets/loses my file, which takes four months of phone calls to resolve. What are the consequences of not doing their job properly? A big fat bonus!
They never do these studies for Cabinet Ministers, MP’s and so on. Most of these jokers are only required to serve 10 years to collect full pension.
Really. We needed a study? Just look at public sector spending to GDP. Canada’s spending is over 41% of GDP, Greece was 46% when they had a meltdown. Government spending does not create ultimate wealth because it taxes it’s citizens to pay for the salaries and wages of public sector employees. You know it’s bad when people are putting their kids in French immersion so that they have a better chance at a Government job. Wake up Canada. The countries that are competitive have much lower public sector spending to GDP. (i.e. China 18%) Why put your son/daughter through law school or an MBA program when they can make over $120K with a pension as a police officer or school principal?
Robert, there are several things wrong with your statement. Firstly, comparing Canada to Greece is nonsense. Greece may have had government expenditures of 46% but there are two significant differences between Greece and Canada. We have vast quantities of natural resources and lots of industries. What has Greece got? Fishing and tourism? Second, Greece has a huge number of tax cheats that have taken billions out of the country, and they’ve done nothing to bring them to justice.
As far as comparing Canada’s costs to China, that borders on the moronic. What does the average Chinese person earn in wages per year? Could you survive on that? Do you want their food quality control system?
We already knew that! It seems every time our taxes go up so do government employee wages, while our infrastructure continues to worsen. Has anyone not noticed that a Cost-of-Living increase increases OUR cost of living?
Aileen
And who funded this wastefull study…all I can say is “Well Duh”!