Wages

[Wayne Goodwin]

Is it right for County's , City's even State to Publish , in this case "Teachers Wages" for all to see ?

[Wayne Goodwin]

I recently saw in paper the wages teachers , school staff and others made . I learned long ago not to share what i made . It would come back to bite you in time from others causing riff between employer and "Me" .

[Lifesighs]

I was involved in doing payroll as my job for most of my working life, the only places that want to keep that information secret are places that underpay a lot of it's employees. They pay some with good self esteem more because those people demand it, good work for good pay, those that are timid pffffft give them as little as they will accept.

I actually liked doing the payroll for a City when everyone knew the pay scales.

The one part that was great in being part of payroll was that I was always paid fairly well, I left one job as an office manager working my butt off to go and do payroll for a trucking company in the late 70's my pay went up considerably. From a salary of 18k per year which is $8.65/hr to over 14.00/hr. I never looked back. My pay at the city was great.

[Wayne Goodwin]

I have nothing against it and probably a good thing to be up front about it .

[Shadowman]

    The newspapers did this recently in my area and published all public employee wages, teachers, professors, county employees, etc.  However, they did not publish teacher, administrative salaries from private schools that get public money such as so-called choice schools, voucher schools, religious schools. Apparently in Wisconsin private schools can get public money but not disclose what they do with it.

   In one way or another the public supplies the money for everyone's salary every time they buy something so maybe we should publish everyone's salary. I remember reading fictional utopia/anti-utopia novels where everyone in society gets paid the same or as in News From Nowhere by William Morris they are paid nothing but get what they need in society for their service and no one bothers with money. 

[Karin M Fichtner]

Who determines what a person "needs" in society?  I think I'll stay with earning a fair wage for a job well done and take my chances.  My son, who's spent about 20 of his 44 years in one school or another, and works for the government, says there are people in his organization who are, "spooky smart", and are invaluable to the organization. I have no issue with those people who contribute so much and have studied so long to get there earning more than some guy who, say, is a clerk in some office.  I think Utopia would be crushingly boring. 

[blithe spirit]

I know in FL we have public records rules also...It's always interesting to me what records the press/newspapers choose to publish though. They could have published when the salaries were reduced when the legislature chose to require state employees to contribute to their retirement accounts...but they didn't....and yes anybody who is interested could find the info but it seldom happens. They love to publish teacher salaries when there are union negotiations, but never the part-time salaries the school board gets are raised...which is more than teachers. Pick and choose...all politics.