Sentences with phrase «higher than the private sector»

With millions of job openings, the chance of you landing a job in federal agencies is usually higher than the private sector.

Not exact matches

His comments come after the IMF in October said that Canada's high debt levels, and higher - than - average pressure on Canadian households» ability to pay down that debt in the private non-financial sector, leaves its economy more sensitive to tighter financial conditions and weaker economic activity.

Though costs in the region may be higher, you'll find a deep pipeline of private - sector funding and a strong mentorship network that'll more than make up for these added expenses.

[2] These jobs tend to provide higher pay and better benefits, and they have been more resilient to economic downturns than other private sector industries over the past decade.

Huge federal, state and local government unionization — much higher unionization rates than in the private sector, including manufacturing — makes it very hard to trim fat from the government.

The PBO identified four key downside risks to the private sector forecast: global growth, especially in the U.S. could be slower than anticipated; the appreciation of the Canadian dollar could adversely affect exports; sovereign debt issues in Europe could restrain recovery there and put upward pressure on global interest rates; and the high level of household debt in Canada could restrain domestic demand.

Manufacturing in the United States is a significant driver of U.S. economic growth, featuring a higher gross output than any other private sector industry.

Moreover, a number of Statscan studies have shown that the incidence of unpaid overtime in the public sector is significantly higher than in the private sector.

The WPI measure of public - sector wage growth, at 3.9 per cent in year - ended terms, remained higher than private - sector growth, which stood at 3.4 per cent.

They blame this increase in spending on local government compensation for municipal employees which they claim is significantly higher than for comparable jobs in the private sector.

The Australian profits share is higher than in the US, but we should not make too much of the difference in levels — there are possible differences in the relative sizes of incorporated and non-incorporated sectors, the extent of public versus private sector ownership of the capital stock, and so on.

Recent outcomes were similar in the public and private sectors, after a period in which public sector EBAs had delivered higher wage gains than in the private sector.

Official wage data also show ongoing strength in public - sector wage growth and a significant rise in wage growth in education: the WPI measure of public - sector wage growth increased by 4.2 per cent over the year to December, almost 1 percentage point higher than the equivalent private - sector wage series.

The Labor Department now says the private sector added 607,000 jobs during Cuomo's first four years in office, 71,700 higher than the previous estimate.

Indeed, when the research team evaluated three further private prisons, they found that prisoner quality of life was higher in two of these additional prisons than in either the poorer performing private prisons or either of the public sector prisons in the study.

The research suggested that starting rates for lower - paid admin civil service staff were «in line with or slightly higher than» those in the private sector.

This comes against a backdrop of the Institute for Fiscal Studies calculating that public sector pay is on average 8.3 per cent higher than pay in the private sector.

You have to keep in mind, these are very high - paying jobs — on average, about five times higher than the comparable salaries in the private sector.»

That amount is approximately five times higher than the average salary in the private sector.

«But, the real fact is since the beginning of 2012, there's been more than 20,000 private sector jobs created in the Buffalo Niagara metro market and in February and March of this year it was the highest recorded job total for our region in those months ever.»

The seeming implication by Breslin's camp is that Martland, an Albany High School graduate who left the Capital Region for Princeton University and Brooklyn Law School and spent more than two decades as a prosecutor and lawyer in the public and private sector downstate, is an outsider.

• On a year - ago basis, private sector employment in November was only 0.1 % higher than in 2013, compared to a U.S. growth rate of 2.3 %.

David Cameron led Ed Miliband by 15 points (42 % to 27 %) as best Prime Minister in the national poll, though it was notable that his lead was twice as high among men (22 points) than among women (10 points), and more than twice as high among private sector workers (24 points) than public (10 points)-- though for him to have any sort of lead among public sector workers in the current climate is an achievement worth noting.

The average Wall Street salary is five times higher than in the rest of the private sector in New York City.

This suggested there were plausibly 2.2 million TB cases, possibly more, treated in the private sector in 2014 — two to three times higher than current estimates.

Joint work with the private sector has resulted in the installation of more than 300 dryers across the country, benefiting about 35,000 farmers with better - quality grains that command higher market prices.

For both categories, total medical premiums are higher for teachers than they are for private - sector professionals, but for family coverage the teachers incur the extra expenditures themselves.

In the public and private sectors, for both single and family coverage, the employer cost is higher for union workers than for nonunion workers.

The national data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicate that annual employer insurance costs are 26 percent higher for teachers than for private - sector professionals; adjusting for higher participation rates among teachers reduces the difference to 16 percent.

We find that insurance costs for teachers are 26 percent higher than they are for private - sector professionals, and this is partly explained by greater unionization in the public sector.

As recently as 2009, the employer cost for single coverage was $ 1,361 higher for teachers than for private - sector professionals, compared to $ 998 today, and for family coverage it was $ 29 higher for teachers instead of $ 388 lower.

The unionization rate is higher for the public sector than for the private sector (50 percent vs. 14 percent in the EBS data), suggesting that unionization explains some portion of each of these patterns (see Figure 3).

In the Open Ceremony of the World Education Forum 2015 on May 19 there were more than 100 government ministers, along with high - level government officials, Nobel Prize Laureates, heads of international and non-governmental organizations, academics, representatives of the private sector, researchers, youth leaders, media activists, and other key stakeholders.

We find that total employer contributions for both groups of public school teachers are higher than for private - sector professionals.

While the overall employer contribution rate for public school teachers is higher than for private - sector professionals, the group average may mask differences between teachers who are and are not covered by Social Security.

In the most recent quarter for which data are reported, ending September 2008, the employer contribution rate for public K — 12 teachers (14.6 percent) was 4.2 points higher than that for private - sector professionals (10.4 percent).

In spite of dissent from this view by some researchers (see sidebar), in this case we find that conventional wisdom is right: the cost of retirement benefits for teachers is higher than for private - sector professionals.

The new private sector is still somewhat higher in education and income than the public sector, and more Catholic and Republican.

Washington — Although the nation's proprietary schools — which prepare young people for a wide variety of skilled jobs — enroll a higher proportion of disadvantaged students than do other sectors of the postsecondary - education system, a lower proportion of the schools» students receive financial aid than do students at private colleges and universities.

It is immediately apparent that the relative size of the private, non-profit sector varies enormously across states, from a high of more than 60 percent in Massachusetts and Rhode Island to less than 5 percent in Alaska, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Wyoming.

Insurance costs for teachers are 26 percent higher than they are for private - sector professionals

The fact that Milwaukee voucher students advanced through their college years at better rates than the comparison group indicates that their higher high - school graduation rate was not driven by possibly - lower diploma standards in the private - school sector.

• In all but the private sector, parents of elementary - aged children are more satisfied with their schools than are parents of children in their high - school years, but charter schools gather higher rates of satisfaction than assigned district schools at all age levels.

• Black, white and Hispanic parents express higher satisfaction with private schools than with schools in both the charter and district sectors, but Asian parents do not.

These firms believe that, using economies of scale as well as other tools that are more readily available to the private sector, they can build organizations that use time and resources more efficiently and effectively than public school districts, leading to higher student achievement at a similar cost.

• In all four sectors, high - income parents are more satisfied with their schools than are low - income parents, but the difference between private schools and assigned district schools is greater for low - income parents than those of high income.

«Teacher Retirement Benefits: Even in economically tough times, costs are higher than ever,» by Robert Costrell and Michael Podgursky This study documents the growing gap between high employer pension costs for public school teachers and lower employer pension costs for private sector managers and professionals.

In addition to his experience in the higher education setting, Dr. Fowler served as a coach, teacher, athletic director, technology coordinator, and school administrator for more than a decade in the PreK - 12 educational setting in both the private and public school sectors in Ohio.

Research indicates that today's public - sector workers such as teachers receive less compensation — or combined pay and benefits — than similar workers in the private sector.25 Historically, public - sector jobs were attractive to workers due to their stability, their high - quality benefits such as defined - benefit pensions, as well as their intangible benefits such as pride in public service.

If the FAFSA isn't filed, your only loan options for the next academic year will be in the private sector — which typically come with much higher interest rates than federal student loans.