Category: Consulting fees

Consultant Hiring Costs Victorian Taxpayers Nearly $1 Billion

New data has shown that residents of the Australian state of Victoria have to pay nearly $1 billion (US$670 million) in consulting fees since the Labor government came into power in 2014. On March 23, the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) released data on how much the Victorian Labor government has paid consulting agencies…


Huntington Beach Considers Spending $175K on Study of City Jobs 

Huntington Beach city council is set to determine if it will spend $175,000 for a consultant to perform a “classification and compensation” study. The plan seeks to organize all of the city’s job descriptions into logical categories that would enable Huntington Beach to have a fair and effective merit-based employment system, according to a recent staff report. Council will vote…