On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 01:06:49 GMT, "John R. Carroll"
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"Sue" wrote in message
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On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 22:48:26 GMT, "John R. Carroll"
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"Sue" wrote in message
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On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 22:20:57 GMT, "John R. Carroll"
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"Jim Stewart" wrote in message
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Cliff wrote:
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/...0.asp?GT1=6820
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The 5 most outrageously overpaid CEOs

Here's the pantheon of execs whose paychecks soar while their
companies suffer.

Good list, can't disagree. Now how about
finding us a list of the 5 most over-paid
civil servants?


How about 5 that aren't.

Me.
Sue


Let me rephrase it then. 5 that are well paid - let's set the bar at GS
15+
and see if you are in that group- , what they do and why they are a
bargain
at that pay grade.

I'm not federal so there's no GS anything. After 18 years at my job I
made really close to $40,000 last year, but that was with lots of OT.

My question/comment was poorly worded. You thought I meant low wage and I
didn't.

I thought you meant a list of 5 civil servants who *aren't* overpaid
implying that they all are. I'm neither over nor under paid IMHO.

Sue,
Any large organization has high and low value emps. Governments are no
different in this regard. I here a lot of blow hard talk to the effect that
the government work force is useless and overpaid at any price. That simply
isn't true and I wondered if it wouldn't be productive to demonstrate that.
You here a lot about 200k per year tit's on a bull but it's rare to see the
opposite. Must not be as news worthy as Natalie Holloway but it's much more
important in the grand scheme of things.
I will say this, however. At 40K and living where you do, you are 3 to 6
months from homelessness, public assistance or both after 18 years of
service. At least you are if you are on your own and absent an inheritance
or really substantial savings or assets.

Not quite "on my own". If necessary "rescue" is close at hand (and
has been in the past). No substantial savings (raising four kids on
my own didn't really allow for that). Saved basically by an
inheritance which I used to almost buy my house (finally, at the age
of 52). Rents around here, even for a one bedroom apt in a decent
neighborhood, are about $800 p/mo. My house payment (which has an
escrow acct) is $435. Nice house, nice neighborhood, ridiculously
inflated value, no plan to sell.

That's not right. You probably see
exactly this every day at work.

The sad ones are those who seemingly did everything right - buying
nice home, lots of savings - that get hit with a catastrophic illness.

I hope Arnold doesn't **** up your pension.
You'll need it.

My employer is the county as is my pension. I don't know that Arnold
has much, if anything, to do with it. And, yes, I'll need it. 6
years to go! Having four kids wasn't the wisest thing to do, but it
increased my chances that one of them would grow up and earn enough or
marry enough money to support me in my old age. )
Sue