The Economic Policy Institute besides being one of my favorite sources for information is a pro-labor, union funded organization that gets it right. Can anyone debunk this:
...The data analysis in this paper, however, indicate that
public employees, both state and local government, are
not overpaid. Comparisons controlling for education,
experience, hours of work, organizational size, gender, race,
ethnicity and disability, reveal no significant overpayment
but a slight undercompensation of public employees
when compared to private employee compensation costs
on a per hour basis. On average, full-time state and
local employees are undercompensated by 3.7%, in comparison
to otherwise similar private-sector workers. The
public employee compensation penalty is smaller for
local government employees (1.8%) than state government
workers (7.6%)....
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