From Dr Stanley Perkins.
ON reading the Jersey Evening Post of 23 June 2009, headlined ‘One in 12 States workers now earns over £70,000’, one could not help being shocked and surprised at the salaries paid to public sector workers in Jersey.
My curiosity was aroused to determine the salaries paid to municipal workers in the municipality in which I reside, Saanich – the largest municipality in the Greater Victoria, British Columbia, area of Canada with a population of 113,000.
Public sector workers’ salaries in Jersey ranged from £70,000 ($140,000) to £249,000 ($498,000).
In Saanich, municipal workers’ salaries ranged from $32,598 (£16,289) to $70,324 (£35,162) for 230 full-time and 55 part-time inside workers on a seven-hour day, 35-hour week.
The outside public works personnel had salaries ranging from $37,232 (£18,616) to $135,000 (£67,500) for 200 full-time workers and 70 part-time workers working an eight-hour day, 40-hour week. The chief administrator of the municipality earns $192,000 (£96,000), which is a lot less than the sum paid in Jersey of £249,000 ($498,000).
When one considers pensions in addition to salaries, public sector workers in Jersey are costing the taxpayers a lot of money.
