Are these really the people that should be required to work so much? Isn’t their job about handling life and death daily? Wouldn’t we want exactly these people to come fully rested to work every single day and be fully staffed?

I don’t know if there are jobs with similar stakes that are so carelessly staffed and disgustingly paid.

  • blarghly@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    I mean, it also seemed high to me. My guess is

    1. Employee benefits (like, ironically, medical) are more expensive for the company than we would assume, but aren’t included in nominal worker pay.
    2. The company subcontracts out its lower wage work, like custodial staff or CNAs. So it ends up paying a bunch of doctors $200k per year, and twice as many nurses $50k per year. Assuming this custodial staff don’t count in the metric I found, since they aren’t on payroll. And we could argue that CEO pay could be directed to them as well… but then we are just splitting the pie more ways.

    Of course, if you have some proof that 90% of those wages are going to 10% of earners in the company, I’m all ears. But I kind of doubt it.