Ben Eisen and Alex Whalen, analysts at the Fraser Institute, provided the following opinion article. Prince Edward Island, like every Atlantic province, ...
governments in Atlantic Canada may be overshooting the mark and paying a premium to employees above and beyond what comparable workers in the private sector earn. Moreover, non-wage benefits are more generous in government than in the private sector.
And while these data include federal, provincial and municipal employees, the provincial government does a significant portion of all public hiring in P.E.I., so the King government should carefully review its wage bill in light of this evidence to determine whether it’s paying above-market wages. Private-sector workers in P.E.I. are also more likely to lose their jobs in any given year than government workers. And government workers in the province take more days off for personal reasons each year — 6.3 days more in 2021, the latest available year of comparable data.
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