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Originally Posted by Bend it like Bourgeois
What's the % of city budget for staff...80% or something?
Since it's only a few coffees how about instead of all of us having a few less starbucks maybe the 15000 or so city employees can have the same amount this year as last, so will we and we'll call it all even.
Wait, is the subsidied cafeteria still there in city hall? Starbucks is probably free anyway  |
I don't even want to touch the salary argument, because this is going to ugly, especially comparing against salaries in white-collar Calgary.
However, I will say this - the City does spend a lot on private contractors to come in and do a good chunk of the corporate work. If the City were to stop using (or at least cut down) on the number of consultants, we could save tens of millions of dollars per year. However, that means that a lot of the talent and expertise needed to run the City would be lost back into the highly-competitive labour market.
I get quite irked when people say that government employees slack on the job and don't earn what they're making. I have now worked in both and I can tell you that the differences in work ethic are slim to none. Some of the brightest and most hard working people work for the government, and the municipal sector is
damn lucky to have some of the people they do.