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Originally Posted by crazy_eoj
None of your statistics have anything to do with what I posted so I'm not sure how to respond.
You've shown that AB wages are higher than Ontario and the Canadian Average. You've also shown that the AB public wage (before unpaid benefits such as pensions, etc.) were higher in 2011 than the total AB average wage in 2014. Imagine how much higher they would be after including total compensation?
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You have blamed public employees for the budget issues several times in this thread. You have claimed that they make disproportionately more money than private sector employees in this thread and the facts say otherwise. The truth is that the two sectors are very close when it comes to compensation. True, the public sector numbers don't include benefits such as pensions, but the private numbers also include a ton of people making minimum wage which brings the average down.
The point here (which was articulated perfectly by CliffFletcher) is that blaming public sector employees for this mess is wrong. Regardless of which sector you work in, the fact remains that we all reaped the benefits of the oil industry for a lot of years, and now the time has come to actually pay for it. Both private and public equally.
If anyone thinks that public sector employees will get out of this mess without a scratch, then they are kidding themselves. The minute those contracts are done they are going to take a big roll-back.