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sinoforever t1_je0a2wv wrote

470k is not a lot for a person with this resume

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[deleted] t1_je0dems wrote

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snoogins355 t1_je0ghs7 wrote

Sorry, we have to pay the college sports coaches that salary /s

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UserGoogol t1_je1u78f wrote

In many states the head coach of some sport at a public university is the highest paid state employee, but in Massachusetts it is the chancellor of UMass Medical School. Both are in professions with very sharp competition from the private sector, of course.

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dancognito t1_je135kq wrote

My wife works in municipal government and there does seem to be a mentality on the positive side that while you won't make as much, your job is very secure and you are entirely off the clock after 5pm (except for very specific days), but on the negative side some people take advantage of that and will not do any extra work no matter how minute and become almost completely useless but not quite useless enough to get fired.

And then there are things that I do or buy that I don't think twice about, whereas she would have to convince so many people for approval or it might technically be illegal to do the same thing.

Sometimes it feels like towns and cities could be so much better if they paid just a little bit more. Doesn't have to be the same as the private sector, but they'd open up themselves to such better candidates if they paid a couple grand more across the board.

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NealCaffreyx9 t1_je1l590 wrote

Sorry we can’t pay a government employee that wage so instead we’re going to pay a consulting company $4 million to tell us the same thing a highly qualified employee could tell us

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genius96 t1_je1z9s8 wrote

And because we don't pay government workers enough, we don't have capacity so we hire overpriced consultants. Like 2/3rds of the 7.7 billion spent on the SAS in NYC went to consultants. So we're barely penny-wise and just massively pound-foolish.

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Cabes86 t1_je2qe9o wrote

Public Sector and Higher Ed= Paid Less BUT, the Benefits, work:life ratio, days off, etc. are worlds apart better.

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Cabes86 t1_jealzez wrote

Software Private isn’t similar to the rest of private—there’s a lot of bad healthcare options, and not allowing all fed holidays out there.

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ChrisSlicks t1_je0z4qw wrote

If we can pay the UMass football coach $1.7M I have no problem paying competitively for a position as important as this.

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therealrico t1_je0oe1x wrote

Right? This is a massively important job. Guy is in charge of how many with average daily ridership of 678k.

What he does has a massive impact on the city. If he’s able to help turn around the T and increase ridership, it could help traffic.

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CaesarOrgasmus t1_je1dn1r wrote

Especially when you compare it to what it will ultimately cost to fix problems of this magnitude. Can't wait for a bunch of "fiscal conservatives" to start complaining about paying this guy half a mil when he hasn't personally reconstructed the T in his first six months

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Mission-Meaning377 t1_je2v8pn wrote

It's not to much... Only slightly higher than the President of the United States.

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sinoforever t1_je336h2 wrote

Which might be the most underpaid job that’s ever existed

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