I'm a retired truck driver as an example. I sub contracted with the USPS to deliver bulk mail to facilities throughout Wash and Oregon. I was paid $28 an hour. If I was driving for a private company in the Seattle area I would have been paid between $13 and $15 an hour. Had 2 union jobs, one paid $13 and the other only paid $10. If I worked for the STate driving a semi the prevailing wage was a little over $40 an hour. As you can see its just not fair to the working public to have to pay these welfare workers such exorbitant salary and benefit packages.