Fanden dies bei Google – Was kann ein solches Maß an Unterschied zwischen dem öffentlichen und dem privaten Sektor erklären? Weiß jemand?

Private sector is mainly cover by foreigners while public nationals. Doesn’t sound fair that nationals take higher salary than locals giving it is their country and their policy to be such a business friendly place and providing such quality of life for expats living here. For me wouldn’t be fair if a local makes less than foreign in a country like Luxembourg.

They steal our money. Look at all these CNS workers getting loads of cash for accepting PAPER INVOICES. Robbery.

Or maybe the public sector pays wages required to actually live well in Luxembourg while the private sector what they knows people will accept hence border workers ans immigration? Anyone coming from Italy or India would think the private sector rate is good till they get here.

Luxembourgish public sector is still much better run than most countries I’ve lived in. They arent billionaires on those salaries but Amazon has several while not paying people enough. I wouldn’t be mad at the public sector I would question the private sector.

The fact that most governments jobs require university degrees while jobs not requiring them are mostly outsourced to the private sector.

It’s kind of pointless to compare median salaries between sectors without differentiating between qualifications. Just to put some numbers here, I (32m) work in the private sector making 11200€ per month before tax. I have a Masters in CS. This is roughly the same or slightly more than I would make on a government position with my qualifications. When the public sector employs many people with university degrees and most of them on the older side, it should be obvious why the median is about 9000€, at the same time the private sector employs many minimum wage workers, which heavily pulls the median salaries down. Another factor to consider that in the public sector, everyone (politicians, directors, experts) gets paid by a salary while in the private sector, the best performing individuals which would pull the median up, are paid with stock options due to tax reasons, not counting as salary.

The public sector has need for low paying jobs but these are easily and cheaply outsourced thus the public sector is dominated by more senior positions, artificially boosting median wages.

Also public sector pay is generally really high compared with equivalent private sector roles, often because of more stringent language requirements narrowing the candidate pool and forcing them to raise the salary offer to attract candidates.

Finally public sector workers are much more likely to be citizens and have the incentive to vote to maintain this status quo.

There are a few reasons. One is that the public sector is not bound by the necessity to balance its books so it can offer wages that are nowhere near aligned with the „market“. The reason the difference is so stark here is that our economy generates a lot of money (per capita or resident) for the government. The situation isn’t that dissimilar in other smaller countries with outsized economies.

Second, the public sector has always been acting a bit as a bubble to ensure social peace. Have you ever wondered why there is comparatively low anti-immigration rhetoric for a country where almost the majority of residents is foreign, well deep down most natives are just simply compensated with a wage that would otherwise not be realistic.

Lastly, we are also now just in too deep to change it. The public service has a strong union and the majority of the electorate probably works for the government, either directly or indirectly (POST, CFL, BCEE) so any politician daring to change this, admittedly utterly unsustainable, status quo risks political suicide.