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Originally Posted by GordonBlue
I notice when people comment on "outrageous salaries" they, like Mbates did, mention the outliers.
In the area where I worked, not one person made over $100,000 including value of benefits. we're talking about 200 people. just an example out of tens of thousands of employees, of course.
people forget the majority of staff are regular joes doing regular jobs.
none of us were raking it in compared to the private sector. none of us were/are on the sunshine list.
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Have you looked at the sunshine list (which I note I referred to in my post and was not only mentioning outliers)?
https://www.alberta.ca/salary-disclosure-table.cfm
I do not think it is unfair at all to go through that list and question whether the number of people on it - some making much higher than the minimum it takes to make the list - represent good value for the compensation being spent.
That is different than superficially declaring salaries to be outrageous. Which I do not think I did.
And the responses to the example I gave in large part suggested that there was nothing outrageous about the compensation given the person is a top public servant.
Seemed like a productive discussion to me.