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Slobjob Zizek
Jun 20, 2004
Most state governments and state universities already make salaries public. As far as I know, this really hasn't helped anyone's bargaining power.

HR can just write vague job descriptions and create a ton of arbitrary ranks that they award at will (e.g. Analyst I to Analyst XII).

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Slobjob Zizek
Jun 20, 2004

shrike82 posted:

Isn't the trade-off for working in the public sector that you earn less in exchange for better non-pecuniary benefits?
How does open wages factor into this at all?

This is fast-changing, though, as the Feds and states look to gut pensions, never offer raises, institute furloughs, etc.

Slobjob Zizek
Jun 20, 2004

shrike82 posted:

It's not that surprising that it'd be less of an issue with public sector jobs given that pay/promotions tend to follow a more methodical stepwise process (GS etc.)

I think it'd be a lot more common to see issues with entry level hires making more than early career hires or external hires making more than internally promoted hires in the private sector.

No, I already posted this but was ignored. For example, check out UC salaries: http://www.sacbee.com/statepay/#req=employee%2Ftop%2Fyear%3D2013

Professors all get paid different amounts (even at hire), and there are no stabbings. Or unionization either.

Edit: Actually, look at any department on that site, and sort by job title. Everyone within a title makes a different wage.

Slobjob Zizek fucked around with this message at 00:21 on Apr 19, 2014

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