Salaries & Compensation: J'ever notice?

[Populist_Prole]

That corporate tools/pundits always love to distort and high-ball pay rates or salaries of the working class by citing some outrageously high figure ( autoworkers at $75/hour or teachers at 100K/year ) by weaseling out by saying "pay and benefits", even factoring in imputed voluntary overtime?

Conversely, J'ever notice they always low-ball executive pay/compensation by citing a base salary of say, a quarter mil or so, but then studiously ignore the gravy of stock options and plethora of other executive perks that take their total compensation into the millions?

Ever notice how corporate tools do this without the slightest hint of irony or sheepishness, even if they're called on it?

Just wanted to get this off my chest.

[virgogal]

1. Ya got that right. Tweaking the figures is what they

do best.

[Egalitarian Thug]

2. Daily. n/t

[Gormy Cuss]

3. Yeah, it's a very old sleight-of-hand.

Amazing that so many in media still fall for it.
Amazing or deliberate that is.

[lumberjack_jeff]

4. It's worse than that.

They use the metric "cost of compensation", then divide it by the hours worked. Thing is that pensions paid to former employees are part of the "cost of compensation".

$75 per hour? If you count the money they're paying to other people, then maybe so.

[Auntie Bush]

5. Ever notive when other salaried jobs say they get X amount of dollars.

But teachers get X Dollars PLUS health insurance. Not fair!

[unblock]

6. sometimes they even lump in the employee's share of office rent, phone bill, computer, etc.

[Populist_Prole]

7. Now that's low

I'll bet they don't include management's share of the same, instead filing it under "necessary expenses to insure managerial greatness" or somesuch.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. cherry picking, yeah. I noticed.

[Lifelong Protester]

9. I agree with you

Oh, yeah, we public sector people.especially teachers, are waaaaaaaaaaay overpaid. But heck, we get a whole $200 tax credit for stuff we teachers buy out of our pockets! Wow! What a trade off!!! (That amount may be different than stated, my spouse does the taxes...)

[bluesbassman]

10. The repugs have been waging a class war for the past thirty years. Started with Reagan.

It's now a full fledged disdain for the "working class". Like we're some kind of parasite, yet the truth is that it is the working class that built and fuels the economy. Yet the rank and file still believe that the policies of the right are somehow good for them. It's really quite astonishing.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

11. Ever try to find out how much doctors and lawyers

really make?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

12. Then they turn around and suggest that the benies are give-aways.

Can't have it both ways, folks. Either it's all earned as part of the total compensation package or it ain't.

[SunSeeker]

13. K&R

[shcrane71]

14. J'ever notice that WI voters were supposedly upset that teachers were "forced"

to purchase health insurance from their own cooperative? Apparently, people were quite upset about this unfair business practice. Nevermind that the majority of people have no choice as to where their company purchases their insurance, and those buying on the "open" market have a dismal choice of two or three monopolies in their state.

[Historic NY]

15. We should start calculating the hourly wage & benefit packages of our elected morans...

in the same terms.