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posted by [identity profile] hoiho.livejournal.com at 05:33pm on 07/07/2010
Teachers, policemen, firemen, job centre workers, etc do not earn anything like the same as equivalent jobs in the private sector.

And those in the public sector tend to wildly over-estimate the earnings of those in the private!

http://www.touchstoneblog.org.uk/2009/12/more-about-public-versus-private-sector-pay/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/jan/09/bad-science-ben-goldacre
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posted by [personal profile] hooloovoo_42 at 07:10pm on 07/07/2010
Having worked in both areas and knowing how much people in comparative jobs earn, I don't think I'm underinformed. I also deal with a wide variety of employers in my current role and know how much they pay certain workers.

I happened across one of my old payslips last night from when I bought this place in 1999. OK, I was in a completely different job role, but I was earning more than 25% more than I currently earn.
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posted by [identity profile] hoiho.livejournal.com at 07:15pm on 07/07/2010
Did you read the links? As the second one, a Ben Goldacre column says: "In reality, this is one of those interesting areas where anybody who makes a firm statement is wrong, because there is not sufficient evidence to make a confident assertion in either direction."

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posted by [personal profile] hooloovoo_42 at 07:17pm on 07/07/2010
I did. I was just about to reply that apart from saying that it;s hard to say, neither of those articles actually said very much.

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posted by [personal profile] hooloovoo_42 at 07:21pm on 07/07/2010
I was also going to say that all the stuff about hourly pay and number of hours worked is valid. But in my job I can see direct comparisons between admin assistants with comparable qualifications, payroll assistants in similar sized firms, IT technicians with similar job roles and the differences between what they are paid in the public and private sectors.
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posted by [identity profile] hoiho.livejournal.com at 07:21pm on 07/07/2010
They're both saying "apples and oranges". Neither sector clearly earns more than the other, across the board. It all depends how, and what, you measure it.

Another anecdote: in the last few years, I've had two jobs, both in the private sector, where the salary, for very similar jobs, differed by 40%. Does that prove anything?
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