While many workers in the public and private sectors face pay cuts and the threat of layoffs, state Auditor Suzanne M. Bump is handing out raises of as much as 16 percent to her staff, retroactive to June 4.
The increases could spark outrage at a time when the state is struggling to fund basic services for the elderly and disabled and when thousands of frontline social services workers have gone five years without a pay increase.
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Nobody to keep watch over the watcher mob... So they pat themselves on the back and just smile when they get a bump in pay... Even most of the Massachusetts Demomob doesn't have this much chutzpah ... Sozie wants to professionalize her staff? And what kind of moola does that professionalism bring home to Momma and the kids.... or even Daddy and the kids these days?
Supply and demand. I support this decision. If people are leaving her office to work as auditors somewhere else, she need to do what it takes to retain them. Better than wasting time hiring, training and then looking for newbies every year when they get experience and move on to somewhere else for higher pay. Good accountants are in demand. Salaries of auditors are traditionally higher than social workers.
You simply cannot compare salaries of the public sector with the private sector. The benefits are hugely different, starting with a pension, and a pretty generous pension at that. That has a real dollar value. Add in intangibles like job security and - hate to say this - an overall lower quality employee, and as the article states, you're comparing apples and oranges. And remember, Ms. Bump is the one that tried to scam out on her taxes.
Bump makes the taxpayer a chump!
Hey, Patrick, just found some extra money in the budget....clearly Bump has too much.
Well, that didn't take too long for Ms. Bump to learn the game. She now sees her responsibility to her department's employees as higher than her responsibility to the citizenry. You go girl!
It's just another Bump in the road!
Has anyone ever seen Bump & Granny Warren in the same room at the same time? Talk about separated at birth!
It makes you want to go to the good life welfare
Ms. Bump is the poster child for the saying "riding into office on the others coat tails."
Gee, lets see: cities going bankrupt, massive unemployment, pensions unfunded, unbelieveable benefits, government employees determining justification for their own raises, and private sector employees left sucking wind. What is wrong with this picture? Whatever happened to the idea of the public sector serving the citizenry?