Big Bucks for Government Union Bosses

Union bosses frequently criticize corporate CEOs and government leaders for supposedly taking home hefty pay at workers’ expense. Just this week, protesters picketed House Majority Whip Stan Saylor’s office in York, and singled out his $82,000-a-year salary as lavish. But as our latest research shows, government union bosses do pretty well for themselves too—all funded through dues from ordinary union members. Take a look at the table below from “The Squeeze: Government Unions’ Grip on Pennsylvanians.”

All four union bosses earn six-figure compensation or close to it. The biggest earner—Wendell Young IV—earns pay equal to nine workers in UFCW 1776. And a whopping 148 employees at the Pennsylvania State Education Association earn more than $100,000. Perhaps government union bosses like Wendell Young attack the top 1 percent of income earners because his hefty pay only puts him in the top 2 percent.