Keystone Politics has obtained and released bonus information for the state legislature. Note that the files are large and the numbers do not differentiate between bonuses and reimbursements.
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
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I'm not sure what the point of this exercise is. IMHO, this is now beating a dead horse. Just like in the federal government, there's a pot of money for salaries. It can distributed in the form of higher overall salaries or lower salaries and "merit" or "performance" based bonuses but it doesn't change the amount of money in the pot. The thing about bonuses is that they don't (or shouldn't) count toward one's pension (that's why private industry does it, it saves them money in the long term).
I personally believe most of the money should be in base salary because bonuses are often much more subjective than objective, but that's probably a minority view because most people think employees should get money based on their performance, i.e., bonuses.
Just because most people don't get bonuses or defined benefits pensions for that matter, that is not a good reason to criticize those who do.
I'm a little concerned about reimbursements being included with bonuses, but if that is mentioned at the start you can take it into consideration when looking at the numbers. Most state employees understand that their salary and bonus information is available to the public, at least upon request.
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