Canada\u0027s federal workers don’t seem to understand that they have it pretty good already. Read more.
You do occasionally run across a Canada Post worker whose attitude is: shrug, what’s it to me? This is the classic pose of the monopolist. I always envision airport baggage-handlers, whom in fact we seldom ever see, shrugging a lot. They don’t face competition, either. Your baggage is slow to arrive? Too bad, so sad. Whatcha gonna do about it?
Comparing compensation for different jobs is always hard. Apples-to-oranges is a problem but even when you narrow things down, so is McIntosh-to-Granny Smith: no two jobs arealike. But the Fraser Institute gives this impossible task its best shot every year. In its latest, it finds that on average wages are 31.3 per cent higher in the public sector than the private.
When the Fraser Institute’s researchers control for all these different factors, they find that public-sector workers make 5.5 per cent more than private-sector workers on average. But of course there’s more to most jobs than simply wages. Unfortunately, we don’t have good evidence on all the components of employees’ compensation packages, neither public nor private.
There may be other aspects of public-sector work that are more negative. Byzantine procedure may drive you nuts, for instance, or maybe you would prefer to live in a bigger — or smaller — city than Ottawa. But many job attributes that can be measured do seem to favour public servants.
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