it means that workers in the public sector are poorer compensated than most of the workers in the private sector. In the private sector

managements choose strategic compensations that would pay most of the workers close to 34. 14. A new worker to the private sector would be willing to accept hourly compensations equal or above the $34.14. The same worker if going to the public sector would be willing to accept an hourly compensation of at least $30.84 (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics