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Old 06-14-2011, 03:01 PM   #48
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Originally Posted by Rhettzky View Post
Pretty ignorant comment and I'm not quite sure if you're for real or not. But yes, thousands of people that work at the City care very much about their related fields and their career development. And no, we are not the envy of the public sector. Maybe in terms of benefits and pensions, but there is no way you can compare a municipal workers wage with his private sector counterpart. Especially in the oil industry.
Most studies I have seen peg public sector workers as being paid significantly more than their private sector workers, especially when comparing apples to apples. http://www.cfib.ca/research/reports/rr3077.pdf

Trying to compare average municipal workers to average oil industry is rather useless because the qualifications and skillsets are so different. Kind of like saying why would I choose to pick fruit when I could be CEO of Microsoft and get way better...?
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