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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (243657)	4/10/2010 4:48:46 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

<You don't see something wrong with that picture?> I see a very amateurish comparison. There are people who have made systematic comparisons rather than cherry pick and shoot from the hip. You forget that the public sector encompasses a range from people who did not finish high school all the way to people with Nobel Prizes -- from unskilled manual labor, to skilled trades people, and to very highly skilled professionals. Try being a bit more educated about the public sector before you go around bashing and fishing for numbers to make people feel that there is something terrible about people working in the public sector.

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (243657)	4/10/2010 5:16:23 PM
From: GST	Respond to of 306849

<How state workers' pay really stacks up> <an analysis of statewide wage data by The Seattle Times shows that claims about state workers earning higher pay than others are in many cases incorrect or oversimplified.> <With the assistance of the state Employment Security Department, The Times examined wage data for nearly 200 distinct occupational groups — those in which direct comparisons between state workers and others were possible. The analysis shows the state's payroll looks very different from that of the overall labor force. For instance, food preparers and servers — a relatively low-paid group — make up 9 percent of nonstate workers but just 1 percent of state employees. And people working in business and financial operations — a relatively high-paid group — comprise 10.2 percent of state workers but just 4.5 percent of all other workers. Overall, lower-wage state workers tended to earn more than their nonstate counterparts, while higher-paid professionals made more in the nonstate sector.> seattletimes.nwsource.com