What those statistics/figures do not represent are wage-benefit packages. In many instances, a "sucking at the taxpayer's teat" (govt. employee) benefits are greater than what many full-time American workers earn. Look at self-employed, they pay 15.3%, from the first dollar on for Social Security and Medicare. Skeeyool teachers, at least in this area, along with the poeleese and the 2 day workweek, getting 8 hours of overtime ... fire truck driving boys and girls ... They pay not one red cent towards their pensions, less than 10% of their health insurance (poeleese and the fire truck drivers pay NOTHING) .... The average package of benefits, alone, amount to OVER Thirty Thousand U.S. Yankee Greenback Dollars, per year .... TAX FREE! If there was a comparison including benefits, the taxpayer teat suckers would probably average ... around Eighty Large 'r so.