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Response to salary comparison from DBJ…
The “How” and the
“Why” that no one has asked
By Bob Rhoades
Joe Cogliano had an excellent article in the Dayton Business News and
published here on CountyNewsOnLine. He cited some good figures
that are probably pretty accurate and noted that a state of Ohio
worker’s salary was about 33% higher than the average worker here in
the Buckeye State.
He also talked about those guys in California making $800,000 as a city
manager which is ludicrous. But I’m not so worried about that and
I’ll tell you why.
Not Joe Cogliano, not John Kasich, not any senators or congressmen
anywhere has asked the question, “How did that happen”? Everyone I’ve
ever known has a boss of some kind. If those dudes in California,
the most bankrupt state in the Union had the guts to stand up and say,
“I need $800,000 to do my job”. Where was the dude or dudes or
dudettes to say ----- “WHY?”
Most supervisors at the state level make between $70,000 and $80,000 a
year. That’s because the state decided that it would probably be
a good idea to pay them more than the labor force. Makes good
sense and gives a person something to shoot for, or it would seem.
So we’re back to Kasich saying that the Unions caused the supervisors
in state government to get high pay I suppose. I’ve asked this
question about a 1000 times now. When is someone going to ask the Who
got it, where did it happen, why did it happen, and how did it happen
questions. There has been a writing frenzy about all of the money
problems and a lot of people have pointed their fingers at what they
thought was the problem, but till now we don’t have one solid example
in Ohio of the stuff Kasich has said is happening.
And it looks like we’ll never find out because SB 5 is going to take
care of the problem so there won’t be any need to dig any deeper on the
subject.
As for me, I think living in California must be pretty good. If you can
work in a place that doesn’t have any money and still take home
$800,000, it has to be a good place. Since his town must be able
to manufacture money, maybe he should have taken Arnold’s place.
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