Why government workers are fairly paid

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Originally Posted by merrylander

Are you serious? How does bookkeeping in the public sector differ from the private sector? A civil engineer working for the government is still a civil engineer. It is not like the public sector is some mysterious .

There are many reasons for variable output from jobs at two different employers that may require the same knowledge skills and abilities. This is not uncommon in the private sector, so its not a quantum leap of logic to consider that there may be such differences between public and private sector jobs. While a bookkeeper at employer "A" may have one set of expectations regarding productivity, hours of work, incentive pay, software used, access to resources, etc., employer "B" may have a very different environment that produces different levels of productivity and value of the wage dollars spent.