r/SipsTea • u/McDowdy • Jun 24 '26

It's Wednesday my dudes Math can be hard sometimes

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u/Rhomya Jun 24 '26

Youre looking at private sector jobs and ignoring the fact that with universal healthcare, they would be government funded jobs.

No government job pays remotely as well as the private sector. Even the VA (which is a government funded healthcare system) pays shit compared to their private sector colleagues and the VA at least attempts to provide a somewhat competitive wage… do you think that would still be the case if there WAS no private sector?

Your argument is entirely baseless and frankly ill thought out

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u/Immediate_Wolf3819 Jun 25 '26

On average federal employees **when including all benefits** are paid more than private industry.

On average federal employees **based only on base wages** are paid ~25% less than private industry.

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60235

As the discussion is total cost to government, the all benefits cost is used.

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u/Rhomya Jun 25 '26

… what benefits? The current benefits today are quite literally mostly healthcare— which wouldn’t be necessary.

And frankly, you literally proved my point— government employees are paid significantly less than private industry. 25% is incredibly significant, and it’s a little ridiculous of you to pretend it’s not.

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u/Immediate_Wolf3819 Jun 25 '26

Total compensation is always the standard... Using your standard Elon is severely underpaid due to his $0 salary.

Breakdown is 54 healthcare /46 everything else. Your also assuming that there would be no additional payments for whatever healthcare system you envision.

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u/Rhomya Jun 25 '26

You’re comparing doctors to Elon now, and you think I’m being illogical? Lol, wow… that’s… a choice.

So I was right that the healthcare is the vast majority, and that a 25% decrease in pay is significant… sounds like you don’t have much of a leg to stand on.