….Unfortunately, legislators, who earlier embarrassed themselves with an audit of UW faculty and staff sick leave usage, have shot themselves in the foot yet again.
Just as legislators were exposed by the news media as not reporting their own sick days, an examination of legislative salaries and benefits in Wisconsin compared to other states will once again reveal legislative hypocrisy. For Wisconsin’s legislators rank among the best paid in the nation when you examine their salaries, their generous per diem payments, their sick leave conversion privileges and their participation in the Wisconsin Retirement System.
In short, in a peer comparison with other legislatures, they rank far ahead of UW faculty and staff compared to their peers.