PSAC Strike 2023

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Originally Posted by acottawa

PSAC doesn’t do this sort of job. Most PSAC categories have fairly clear private sector or municipal/provincial equivalents.

https://www.canada.ca/en/treasury-bo...sentation.html

A few exceptions of course.

I guess I mean government in general but lots of those jobs still hard to compare. What's the fare pay for a lighthouse keeper?

Originally Posted by phil235

There may be some jobs that are hard to compare, but I don’t buy that these employees are all so specialized or unique that they can’t be compared with others doing similar jobs. If nothing else, you will have comparables in the provincial public services. (Nor do I buy that every private sector admin assistant has more stress than public sector admins).

There is a whole industry of consultants whose job is to classify jobs based on comparing duties and required skills. A company like Hay has a massive database of classifications and could give you market comparables for every job in these bargaining units.

To be clear, I am not saying they are overpaid compared to the private sector. In my experience, those at the lower levels tend to be paid higher than the private sector, while professionals in the public sector are generally paid less than they would make in the private sector, often by a lot.

I'm not saying they can't be compared just the work in many cases is so different it's not an easy one to make. I don't think they are dramatically overpaid or we'd have millions trying to get into the Public Service like India. The reverse also doesn't seem the case or there'd be higher turnover.