01-06-2010, 03:12 AM
oink - vacation time never increases, but you can accrue to 120 days only.
Health Insurance is a huge expense for State Employees (as well as many in the private sector) and getting bigger all the time. It runs about $600 a month, depending on your familial structure. EDIT: $600 per month is the employee's portion, which is over 40% at this time. The State is proposing to flip that figure so employees would be responsible for 60% of the bill. A common error made by the public is that health insurance is a "perk." This could not be further from the truth.
Their pay is not out of line (in my opinion), since it's more expensive to live here in Hawaii than most states.
Del - In 2006 it was 8 cops per shift in Puna...I think they have gone through a major recruitment since then - there are several more now.
Carrie
"The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it." Galadriel - LOTR
Health Insurance is a huge expense for State Employees (as well as many in the private sector) and getting bigger all the time. It runs about $600 a month, depending on your familial structure. EDIT: $600 per month is the employee's portion, which is over 40% at this time. The State is proposing to flip that figure so employees would be responsible for 60% of the bill. A common error made by the public is that health insurance is a "perk." This could not be further from the truth.
Their pay is not out of line (in my opinion), since it's more expensive to live here in Hawaii than most states.
Del - In 2006 it was 8 cops per shift in Puna...I think they have gone through a major recruitment since then - there are several more now.
Carrie
"The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it." Galadriel - LOTR
Carrie Rojo
"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future..." Galadriel LOTR
"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future..." Galadriel LOTR