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Originally Posted by Fire of the Phoenix
I find it funny some of you people want to compare elected government jobs to the private sector. Guess what? These aren't remotely comparable. The private sector will ALWAYS pay more and it should. If people are running for office for the money, well we're more screwed than I thought. Most of these people have come from the private sector and are rich already.
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Why do you think that private sector boards of directors choose to pay high salaries to their top executives?
Why do you think those same boards of directors are not concerned that they are screwed if their CEO is only working "for the money"?
For the record, I'm not advocating that the Premier should earn $5,000,000/year like many Canadian CEOs do (although I do think that, optics and petty populist politics aside, one could make a reasonable argument for that.) However, I don't think that Alberta's Premier is paid very well. The Premier earns significantly less than a Provincial Court judge, for instance. That's ludicrous.