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Sometimes people don't know the whole story. Like pay for public sector workers in Michigan. Different branches of the State are compensated differently, but overall salaries and benefits are on the rise. As the Mackinac Center for Public Policy <a href="http://www.mackinac.org/12433">reports</a>, for 2009:</p>
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<p>Average compensation per employee &mdash; which includes the value of benefits &mdash; was down 2.0 percent for private sector employees but increased 3.6 percent for Michigan's state and local government employees. <br />
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<p>That is a different story than the one being told by Democrats&nbsp;who&nbsp;rejected an attempt to roll-back the 3% increase scheduled to apply to certain State workers this year. Statistics are a funny thing.<br />
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