Eau Claire Paying Its New Employee $92K While Cutting Other Jobs

I don't get this. Eau Claire is cutting five jobs and opening two new ones, one of which pays almost $100,000 per year. Now, where I come from originally that is a good salary to pay an IT manager or programmer at a high tech company. I'm sure the government jobs pay a little less. In wisconsin we pay our IT people are ridiculously low $14.00 per hour or less and a the manager a few dollars more. I wonder how many $15.00 per hour IT jobs and others they will close to support this $100,000 per year position?

They claim they're going to take it out of the property taxes so whenever this guy gets a raise either your tax might go up or someone else gets fired because how can the County pay someone that much when the wages for others are so low? In order to raise money for government officials you must raise taxes somewhere because that's where the pay comes from.

So, those who make very little don't have to pay into the state or federal system except with their blood, sweat and tears. Then the ones in the middle must take the burden because they don't have a lot of write-offs. The wealthy also need to pay, and they do pay a lot, but it doesn't hurt them as much as it hurts the little guy like me.

It's no wonder why there are so many people not making it here and going to the State for money. Get more and better jobs people. We all can't feed cows and work at restaurants all our lives. We need tech jobs, and I don't just mean industrial tech jobs. I mean real tech jobs like the way it used to be with Celestica, Silicon Graphics and Cray. California and Texas gives them great candidates who study other things than agriculture and they get tax deductions for doing certain things. As far as I'm concerned, Doyle chased them right out with his proposals. Bring the tech companies back and bring back good paying jobs like the person in the article will get and you'll get your high paying tax base back and companies will make more money by investments. It's common sense.

Read about the new job here.