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A quick Google search discovered this article from the Edmonton Journal:

http://www2.canada.com/edmontonjourn...0-c9915dc3173b

Also important to consider is the growth of private earnings, because the public service must compete with the private sector for staff. From 2001 to 2011, total provincially paid wages and salaries in Alberta increased 103.6 per cent. During this same time, total private-sector wages and salaries increased 104.5 per cent. So, total wage and salary growth in the Alberta provincial sec-tor essentially matched the growth in the private sector. Going back to 1997, the earliest comparable data available, the growth of total wages and salaries in the two sectors are, again, parallel; 169.8 per cent for the provincial public sector and 167.3 per cent for Alberta's private sector.