Study: Wage disparity between goverment, private workers in Texas higher than national gap

Garrett reports:


AUSTIN — Texas' public sector workers earn 17 percent less than private employees with comparable experience and education, a new study shows.

The gap was larger than it was nationally or in six other large states studied.

Researchers didn't pinpoint why pay of state and local government workers in Texas lags farther behind private-sector employees than, say, in Florida and California, according to University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee economist John S. Heywood, the report's co-author.
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