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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Well it doesn't help that between 2000 and 2010 Alberta's Public Sector Payroll increased by 120% double of any other province
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I'm very curious to know by how much private sector wages in Alberta increased compared to other provinces in the same time period.
A huge challenge facing government agencies in Alberta (at both the provincial and municipal levels) is that they have to compete for employees with a booming energy industry that pays very generously. If we want to hire competent, highly-qualified professionals to work in our public service -- and I assume we can all agree on that -- then the government has to offer competitive compensation packages comparable to what one could earn in the private sector or else nobody would want a government job. This isn't an issue faced by most other provinces, and certainly none experience it as badly as Alberta.
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Beaten by corporatejay!