A new Fraser Institute study spotlights the wage premium enjoyed by government employees in Ontario at all levels (federal, provincial and local). Using Statistics Canada data from 2015, the study finds that government employees receive, on average, 13.4 per cent higher wages than comparable workers in the private sector. This wage premium accounts for differences between individual workers in the two sectors such as age, gender, education, tenure, experience, and type of work.
But wages are just one component of total compensation, which includes pensions, early retirement and job security.
"Taking the politics out of the wage-setting process will help level the playing field between government and private-sector workers. This can be done by enacting measures that link the wages and benefits of government employees to similar positions in the private sector. "
ReplyDeleteYou had me nodding in agreement until that part. What you are proposing is more government policy to ensure fairness? Isn't that like asking the cat to bell itself?