California is land to the $100k minimum wage state worker: 220,000 highly-compensated state employees cost the public $35 billion.

There is one thing to discuss the minimum wage for servers and many others that work in the low paid service industry but it is another thing to discuss ‘underpaid’ state workers. That statement cannot be said for California’s state employees. In a country where the median household income is $52,000 California seems to be the land of largesse. There is this narrative that state workers take on jobs that pay much less than the private sector but the data in California shows something very different. In fact, there are armies of highly paid state workers. There was a study that looked at state workers and the number of people earning six-figures is somewhat mind boggling. Let us look at the figures.
California, land of the minimum wage $100k state worker
There was an analysis of state worker data that dramatically refutes the notion that state workers are underpaid. If you dig deeper into the figures, what you find that this rarely applies to new younger hires that are getting grilled like many younger workers but you find older baby boomers that are simply milking the system for every penny they can get.
Take a look at the below chart:

This post was published at MyBudget360 on December 04, 2016.