State figures show that the cost of the new Washington State employee pay shrinks as part of the cost of government agencies over the last decade.
Total compensation fell from 20.5% of General Fund expenditures 2002 to 18.2 percent in the year ending in June. A decrease in total salaries and benefits for higher education and general-government workers.
K-12 public school job cost is not included in the calculation. If the cost of K-12 are included, the share of spending relating to salary and benefits will rise to 55 percent to 60 percent, according to a spokesman for OFM Ralph Thomas.
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This trend is in line with the report was released the same day by labor researchers at the University of California at Berkeley. Wage and employment dynamics headquarters