- 109,627 teachers and school administrators.
- 66,403 college and university employees.
- 62,204 State of California employees – including a nurse.
- 45,718 city and town employees: including 1,420 municipal administrators and employees who out-earned the California governor – the highest paid state governor ($202,000).
Notably we have teachers, college and uni employees (not sure of the % of admin vs educators here), and state employees (not sure of the admin vs essential workers here as well, whatever the definition of essential)
And they name-and-shame some of these employees as well.
What's the matter here? Bloated admin costing money? or competition costing money? The article attributes it to both.
So why shouldn't the gov. workers get paid? Singapore does that (but they actually have a functional gov.).
But paying gov/school/college workers well has got to be a good thing! Incentivizing them/others to strive to do a better job/game whatever metric to get that job, which cannot be entirely corrupt.
There's a nurse in there well.
California does not seem to be in trouble because of these people who are highly paid.
California is grasping to find a patsy to blame.