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Originally Posted by Hana  no the majority in the private sector are not the professional classes, they're the guys on the building sites & factory floors, shop tills etc. Go into a hospital and between the nurses/docs/social services/admin etc they make up something like 90% of the staff, that's 90% with 3rd level + qualifications.
Within a private company like - dell about 10 managers for every 500 staff. the managers will have some degree of college education but the 500 plus will be made up of mostly shop floor trained staff. |
Some occupations requiring modest academic education are paid highly to compensate for career disadvantages such as job insecurity, lack of social prestige,physical demands,accident rates and the inability to perform the work beyond a certain age. Heavy manual construction work such as shuttering carpentry is an example.
But even if many low paid occupations in the private sector are paid a fair market wage as dictated by the market,that is no excuse for the public sector to extract high indirect taxes such as VAT from these people to contribute towards the excessive public sector pay and gold plated pensions.