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  • Montana public employees earn more than private counterparts

    Glenn Oppel, Montana Policy Institute

    In a year when most state legislatures were engaged in budgetary belt-tightening, Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer and public employee union representatives agreed to a pay plan package that would make any private sector worker envious. According to the agreement, each of the next two years state workers would receive both a 5 percent raise in pay and a 10 percent increase in the state contribution toward health insurance premiums. The price tag is estimated at $138 million After the pay plan agreement was reached, a local...