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Public Sector vs. Private Sector Compensation or, Suck It, Private Sector.

Nick Gillespie | 1.5.2010 2:09 PM


From a new Cato report on "Employee Compensation in State and Local Governments":

The study's author, Chris Edwards, found that the wage premium for public sector employees was about 34 percent and for benefits about 70 percent.

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