State workers from Michigan join Occupy Wall Street protest in New York

They've got time to go bang drums with the wannabe hippie 20-something slacker class?

Time to start laying their overcompensated goonionized asses off, GoverNerd.

The number of state government employees declined by 12,900 or 21 percent from 1999 to 2009, while the total payroll increased by 38 percent. The FY 2010 average salary for all state government employees was $54,121, with an average fringe benefit cost of $33,057, for a total average annual compensation cost of $87,178, 52% higher than 10 years earlier.  In FY 2000, the average salary for all state employees was $41,518 with an average fringe benefit cost of $15,756.  The State will spend over $1 billion in health plan premiums for active and retiree health care this year alone.

Other post-employment benefits (OPEB), principally retiree health care, are currently unaffordable and unsustainable. At the close of FY 2010, the unfunded long-term liability for retiree health care alone totaled $14.5 billion.