Why government workers are fairly paid

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by whell

Another area of disparity worth exploring is the wages that are spent supporting the inefficiencies in government that we all complain about. Do wage dollars spent in the public sector yield the same value for the dollar that they do in the private sector? I strongly suspect not, and I susect that that value is greater in the private sector, but I'm not aware of any objective data on the topic either.

Links please? Not all of us complain about inefficiencies in government, that tends to fall into the realm of "They Say"