I wanted to follow up the STRIKE! post with some hard numbers. The Mayor says Quincy pays better than any other district on the South Shore. I looked up how much I would make in other South Shore towns given my degrees, years of service, and department head status.
In Quincy, I make $61,123. For the same exact job, I would make:
75,295 in Norwell
74,345 in Duxbury
70,025 in Milton
68,550 in Hanover
67,565 in Scituate
66,530 in Cohasset
66, 238 in Marshfield
66, 255 in Hingham
65,105 in Abington
64,657 in Brockton
64,898 in Braintree
63,985 in Weymouth
62,905 in Rockland
61,055 in Hull
That puts Quincy second from the bottom in the sample I looked up.
THESE TOTALS TAKE INTO ACCOUNT DEDUCTIONS FOR HEALTH BENEFITS, whether 90-10, 80-20, 70-30, 50-50, whatever.
And I say again, I will go to 80-20, probably even beyond. It's not a matter of holding to 90-10. It's a matter of not earning less for the same job I do now.
But more than that, for me right now, it's a matter of being truthful about the situation. The mayor quite simply has not done that.
