California prison guards are two times more than their counterparts in Texas $ — 71 000 per year, compared to $31. The difference is true for workers of the State in General: while in 2009, the average worker of the private sector in California is 12.5% more than in Texas, the disparity between the workers of the State was 25.2%, according to figures from the Ministry of Commerce of. The difference highlights the benefits - and the taxpayer - work in a friendly union of State and may help explain why California has budgetary problems more intractable than Texas. Although Texas has a budget deficit of $ 4.3 billion this year, it has the credit rating of Standard & Poor (MHP) second. California has the lowest rating of any State and is struggling to fill a $ 15.4 billion deficit this year.
The difference in pay of State workers can be explained in part by cost of living California, which is almost 15% higher than in Texas. Yet the power of collective bargaining is even more important, said Oran McMichael, an organizer of long date labor in Texas. Other than the Court and the legislative function, unions represent 85% of all workers in the State of California, said Lynelle Jolley, a spokesman for the staff Administration Dept. the State then that Texas does not have the figures for its employees, trade unions, the proportion is probably less than 10 percent, said State Auditor John keel.
Higher wages mean higher pensions. Retired from the Texas teachers get an average of $18,372 per year, compared to $25,440 for California teachers. Allocation average for the employees of the former State Texas rose 3.9% in the five years through fiscal year 2010; in California he rose 32 percent from 2004 to 2009, according to larger pension in both States.
The contrasting experiences of Texas and California can provide lessons for States such as Ohio, New Jersey and Wisconsin, where Republican Governors have placed emphasis on costs down employment taxes while balancing the budgets of curb. State workers in California and Texas are targeted for cuts, even if the pressure is more intense in the former. Employees state he did not receive an overall increase from 2009 and are now required to take an unpaid day off the coast of every month, explains Jolley.
The salary increase, however, is a more consistent workforce. Turnover rate of 10 percent of the California prison guards is about half the level that it is in Texas. "Our people see their work in a career, not just as something to have until something better comes along," says Ryan Sherman, a spokesman for the California Assn. Correctional of agents of peace in Sacramento.
The bottom line: In California, where more than civil servants are covered by the trade unions, made wages higher than in Texas and a pension burden.
Mildenberg is a reporter for Bloomberg News. Nash is a reporter for Bloomberg News.
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