Comments by "John Smith" (@JohnSmith-op7ls) on "Liberal Hivemind"
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Their fat paychecks and pensions? Most of them don’t make much, maybe $100k to $130k which in the DC area is nothing, and their pensions aren’t much either, they’re basically forced to max out contributions to their pension which pays out a lot less than the same money would put into an S&P 500 ETF, before they can contribute to their 457b. Usually 1% is forced on them and they have to pay another 3-4% of their pay to that underperforming pension before they can get decent retirement options, then the 457b contribution matching is low-mid compared to the private sector.
Oh and most of these orgs never give out bonuses, no merit based raises unless you change roles, and often don’t even have basic 2-3% yearly cost of living raises. They can often go several years before getting a 1.5-2% raise, so they’re literally being paid less every year for the same work no matter how well they do.
Gov work has no perks outside of job security. If you slash the ranks haphazardly no force back to office, anyone good will just go work somewhere else, the only people who will stick around will be people who aren’t good so can’t go anywhere else, or are close to retirement.
You’ll save some money short term but end up with worse performance in the long run.
Same thing happened when they defunded the police.
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