Oklahoma also hires a consulting firm to establish recommended pay scales, aiming for 20% below market for generic jobs and 10% below for skilled/hard to fill jobs. I moved into the 10% group when I moved to IT. Some government employees actually feel that they are working for the public and are trying to make a positive difference in society. The health insurance was average, nothing special, and definitely not cheap. The promise of retirement is a factor - now we just hope the retirement system stays solvent. Yes, you can lose a job in Government - I've personally fired two political appointees who thought they were safe and didn't have to work. There is a process, you just have to follow it.
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 4:26 PM, clay <redgh...@comcast.net> wrote: > My experience has been that goobermint slaves are not being paid > excessively to perform their tasks. Much of the worker bees are making > $0.75 on private worker $1. What gets them to hang around is the inertia > made possible by the probability that they will not lose a job, can make > the career steps, and will have a reliable retirement income. That may > have changed with employment in the past two decades. > > clay > -- > OK Don NSA: The only branch of government that actually listons to US citizens! "There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves." WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers* 2013 F150, 18 mpg 2012 Passat TDI DSG, 44 mpg 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
