Chris Selley- What did we get for 100,000 new federal civil servants?
If I were PSAC, I would very much want to highlight the good all those extra public workers did for frontline services. I haven’t seen that; instead they focus mostly on the cuts themselves. So I asked the union for some examples.
I did a quick lookup of the number of people per federal civil servant for a few select countries and here’s what I found:
UK – 139
DE – 120
US – 119
CA – 112
AU – 89
KR – 78
FR – 13
If these numbers are representative then Canada has some fat to trim but isn’t nearly as bad as some people think it is. A five year hiring freeze along with a re-allocation of positions would probably solve the problem without any government looking like a bad guy. However, this is Canada so the government will look that the citizen – civil servant ratio of France and say, “hold my exclusive craft beer.”
L- References ? Did the source explain the methodology, also that each of the nations criteria
were comparable? We and the U.S.A. are federations with federal and provincial/state division of powers. Some nations don’t have such a division?
I did not do a rigorous analysis of the numbers. I just pulled them off of publicly available Websites. I excluded members of the military and regional councils to try to make the numbers more comparable. I deliberately took some countries that were similar to ours in government structure and a couple that were not.
I have a day job so I don’t have the time to do a full comparative analysis. If you have the time to hunt down the data and do an analysis on it I would be interested in seeing the results.
100,000 parasites X $50,000 = $5,000,000,000.
Per year.
That’s obviously a low-ball amount.
Just taking salary is not enough and your numbers are definitely lowball.
Say ave salary of $80000 plus benefits (was about 40% and definitely not going down) plus cost of early retirement and then add in cost of those extra buildings to house those drones, then add the cost of make work programs planned for employment not efficiency
Cost per position in the fed civil service $200,000 to $150,000
Those extra 100000 positions cost us in the neighbourhood of $15 to $20 billion, year after year after year. Time for zero based budgeting and let the drones justify their positions.