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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Why shouldn't government employees be able to advance in salary (not just break even with inflation) as they gain more experience? I wouldn't accept that in my private sector job, and I don't see why it should be any different for those working in the public sector.
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They should and do. The unions usually have a scale that wages increase by based on years of service and level of responsibility. When a union negotiates a 3% per year increase all of these levels get increase by 3%. So your annual raise would include your inflationary 3% plus whatever levels you have hit. Also some scales include ranges within the level so you start at 90% of the level you are in an increase over a few years to 100% of your level.
In short raises for experience are built in to the pay scales already so a 3% increase to salary applies to all of these an in actual fact an employee would receive more than the 3% increase.
Overall a good work force will be retiring people at the top (high earners) and replacing them with entry level people as others in the system move up. This way the overall wage remains the same plus the inflationary increase.