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At $140,000 a year, why are government workers in California paid twice as much as private sector workers?

MAY 2, 2019 | by Lee Ohanian | HOOVER INSTITUTION

Nationwide, government-worker compensation has been growing more rapidly than private-sector compensation for several years, but this trend is on steroids in California, where some state and local government workers are now paid roughly twice as much as those in the private sector.

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