Jerome Mansfield, facility operator at the West Lafayette water treatment plant, does readings Thursday at the plant in West Lafayette. West Lafayette has five new employees on the payroll this year. By Michael Heinz/Journal & Courier
By Dorothy Schneider, Journal & Courier
dschneider@journalandcourier.com
Layoffs and pay cuts are nothing new among private sector employees these days as the country remains mired in recession.
Public sector jobs, however, have been slower to respond. As of January, the cities of Lafayette and West Lafayette as well as Tippecanoe County had more employees on payroll than last year and were paying them more on average, according to a Journal & Courier analysis of data.
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