Re: OPP wants to be in politics now
You are saying someone with 2 or more degrees will be happy to start with a salary of less than 40k? and that after 6 years they will be happy with 75K
I do not think that salary is out of wack for people that have an important job (I think educating kids is an important job, people might disagree)
Not only that, they have gone back to teachers college out of their pocket.
Teaching should be important, but its not treated that way:
http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/why-its-so-hard-to-fire-bad-teachers/
My kid hasnt been taught hand writing in grade school........and they wonder why our kids performance has been rapidly slipping when compared to other countries.
Intersting info:
"what really caught my eye in the report is the ratio of teacher compensation compared to other full-time, full-year workers with post-secondary education – a kind of rudimentary measure of whether teachers are ‘overpaid’ or ‘underpaid’.
Canadian teachers – and the data is the same for primary and second teachers – have a teacher compensation ratio of 1.05. Roughly translated, that means they get paid 5 per cent more than others with equivalent education. In contrast, most teachers in the OECD are indeed ‘underpaid’ – the OECD average is 0.82 for primary education and 0.90 for secondary teachers, and in the U.S., the equivalent figures are 0.67 and 0.72.
The OECD also calculated the salary per hour of teaching time after fifteen years of experience. The OECD average is $49 for primary teachers, and $65 for secondary. In the U.S., the figures are much lower, at $41 and $46 respectively. The Canadian figures? For elementary teachers $68 an hour, and for secondary $74. Gulp."
I was just using teachers as an example, we could just as easily look at OPG.
In any case, citizens of many European countries have the goal
of working for the govt, is that trend picking up steam in NA?
"Public-sector unions are growing in the U.S. More than 50 percent of all union members are now public employees, and their unions have negotiated sweet deals with local, state, and federal governments. As economic historian John Steele Gordon points out, “Federal workers now earn, in wages and benefits, about twice what their private-sector equivalents get paid. State workers often have Cadillac health plans and retirement benefits far above the private sector average: 80 percent of public-sector workers have pension benefits, only 50 percent in the private sector. Many can retire at age 50.” While private employers were shedding jobs during the recession, state and local governments hired 110,000 new workers"
