Just a few numbers from Charlie Arlinghaus's talk last week. The state of New Hampshire has approx 12000 people on the payroll. That's one state worker for every 108 New Hampshire citizens. Not outrageous I suppose, but then I don't use many state services. I drive on state maintained roads and I buy liquor. Does it take one state worker to maintain the roads and sell the booze to 108 of us citizens?
State workers make an average of $48000 a year. That's just pay, benefits are $250 million more, or about $20,000 per worker. So each worker costs us citizens $68000 of tax money.
Overall the state payroll runs $900 million a year. So even with a ruthless purge of state workers, we won't be able to close the $800 million budget gap that will be upon us next year.
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