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| Who Is The Highest Paid Public Employee In Your State? |
| 2013-05-12 |
| Think the best paid public servant in your state is some tax-collecting bureaucrat with a commission-based comp structure, or some administrative apparatchik? Think again. As the following infographic from Deadspin shows, in 41 US states, the highest-paid public employee is either the football, basketball or hockey coach at the local state school. Which takes cares of the "Circuses" part. For now, at least, public sector bakers did not make the list... |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #3 At this time the Boise State football program is a moneymaker for the University. If Coach Pete (Peterson) ever leaves then who knows. He took a decent program & put it in the top 20 nationally. The TV & Bowl payback is shocking to this blue collar worker. |
| Posted by: tipover 2013-05-12 23:05 |
| #2 "Panem et circenses" translated into american is EBT and College Sports. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2013-05-12 19:43 |
| #1 Government contractors are also virtual public employees, although the public does not think of them that way. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2013-05-12 15:52 |