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E. Kansas | Salaried jobs in the private sector can also require much more time than the standard work week. Lots of salaried employees spend huge amounts of their own time working on projects with unmoveable deadlines, without any additional pay or comp time. Same for people who travel several days per month. That adds up rather quickly in the time you're away from home in the interest of doing your job.
I don't think most people such as myself are concerned about private sector defined benefit retirement plans. Those are funded by the employees and the company where they work, unlike defined benefit plans for public sector retirees that are funded by tax payer money. The big issue to many tax payers is they're funding life-long defined benefit retirement plans, yet a tax payer has to make their 401(k) last through their retirement without any incoming contributions from outside sources.
Most private sector defined benefit retirement plans were discontinued decades ago in many companies for non-union employees and replaced by 401(k) style plans. Many union jobs at companies (like I'm betting you're referring to in Central IL) still have defined benefit retirement plans, but it is not funded with tax money. Their retirement plan and benefits are usually part of the union/company negotiations when the union contract is renewed every few years. My email is good if you want to know why I'm somewhat fluent in this.
I don't see anything wrong or silly about comparing different kinds of jobs. That is what you and your wife have obviously done in some manner when comparing her teaching job to ones in the private sector you're referring to. If she likes her teaching job, then more power to her and I wish her continued success.
A lot of tax payers are very frustrated with the amount of taxes we pay in all forms, yet the receiving entities either don't fulfill their obligation to properly and successfully deliver what the tax money is collected for, or they constantly complain they don't have enough money but seem to have enough for their own special interests.
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