Dec

State Employee Salaries Published Online

The Charlotte Observer has obtained the salaries for 108,207 of the state’s public servants . It is astonishing how many state government employees make well over $100,000 per year, well above the median annual household income of $56,150.

RaleighRob

It’s also astonishing how many of them make less than 30k.

I guess the state has wide berth of fields. They do hire doctors, lawyers, college deans, and maybe some tenured engineers that make those 100k+ salaries. (And they’re still usually paid less than their private-sector equivalent.) And of course department heads and directors probably hit that high salary range too.

But certainly the everyday rank and file state employee is definitely in the lower-to-middle class range. Make no mistake about it.
Tony

It’s also amazing how many state employees aren’t listed on there. I work at a university, and I am on there. I suspect that SPA employees are listed and EPA (most faculty/higher-ups/some managers) are not. I believe EPA employees, by the nature of that classification, are paid a good deal more than most in the state system, so that would bring the average up a bit if they were included.
MikeB

Most of the inflated salaries of the people I know are due to 20-30 years of standard state employee raises and the technology raises handed out in the late 90’s (I remember my dad getting a 15% tech raise on year).
Subway Scoundrel

I am not sure I have issues with Top Managers and Executives at the State making above $100K. With the number of people working under them and the budgets they deal with, I hope they have people with the experience to do so and salary to keep them there. I would say on a whole, state employees make less than others. I am not sure people can complain (not saying your are) about state services and then complain about salaries. No body works for free or stays when tugged at jumping over to private.

I see so many people in private industry who make much more than $100K doing whatever and I know I am also paying for it.

I know the difference between public and private but either way, I pay for it. When I see people from my bank staying in 4 star hotels, going on junkets, working 9-5, making huge bonuses, getting free tickets to everything and throwing big “shindigs” , I know I am paying for that in fees and prices and then I see a state employee being paid average/below average for that level of employees/budget, I have more problems with the first situation than the last……no matter if paid by tax money or not.

No matter what, you get what you pay for and for every “bad state employee”, I can show you corporate waste that you pay for every time you step out the door.

I speak of this as a MBA in the big corporate world who has friends/family who work for the state in Executive/management positions.
http://www.raleighmsa.com Ernest

As a state employee, I see a different set of problems: hiring consultants to do the work that we should be doing. It would take less effort and money to train us – state employees – rather than calling for outside help all the time. Salary-wise, state employees are not the most privileged workers. At least there is some stability to talk about. Not much in terms of benefits, IMO.
RaleighRob

Ernest makes a great point about consultants. I’ve seen the state get two consultants to do a task that normally one state employee would be expected to get done in the same turnaround time….and you just know those consultants are getting paid more, too.
Chris

Consultants and their firms give bigger campaign contributions.

Cause you know everything is for sell in the Basnight/Rand/Easley/Perdue way of governance.

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