> But what are they going to do? Pay more than the Chief Justice of the Canadian Supreme Court?
No need to look at a few prestigious positions. Aren’t doctors on government payroll over there? There’s already a precedent to paying some government employees market rates it seems.
> Sometimes governments try to work around this with contracting companies so that they don't have to see the salaries directly. But this is just padding extra waste and cost.
It also changes the dynamic to fixed price bids where the government has to understand its own needs well enough to write such a bid. Probably the best case-study of that going extremely wrong is, ironically also Canadian, with the Phenix pay system. The government gave the contractor what they understood to be their payroll rules but it turns out they were not what was agreed to. The whole saga lasted almost a decade and cost billions.
No need to look at a few prestigious positions. Aren’t doctors on government payroll over there? There’s already a precedent to paying some government employees market rates it seems.
> Sometimes governments try to work around this with contracting companies so that they don't have to see the salaries directly. But this is just padding extra waste and cost.
It also changes the dynamic to fixed price bids where the government has to understand its own needs well enough to write such a bid. Probably the best case-study of that going extremely wrong is, ironically also Canadian, with the Phenix pay system. The government gave the contractor what they understood to be their payroll rules but it turns out they were not what was agreed to. The whole saga lasted almost a decade and cost billions.