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There was a time not too long ago when public servants entered their profession agreeing to something of a trade-off. They wouldn’t make the same big dollars as their private sector counterparts but they would have job security and benefits.

At least that was the idea decades ago. That’s long out the window now. Public sector workers have it better in almost every possible way.

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Those are the findings of a new report out by the Fraser Institute comparing public and private sector compensation in Ontario.

The report cobbles together the numbers from 2017 and discovers that Ontario’s government sector workers (and this includes all federal, provincial and municipal employees in the province) earn an average of 10.6% more than those in the private sector doing the same job.

It’s not just salaries that are at issue though. The non-wage benefits enjoyed by government workers also gives them an advantage. “Of those covered by a registered pension plan, 94.7% of government workers enjoyed a defined benefit pension compared to 41.5% of private-sector workers,” the report notes.