There's a big jump here, from details describing very highly paid administrators with expensive perks to criticism of the money spent on government employees in general.  Alberta wages in general are high; government employees are paid reasonably well, but not out of proportion to wages in the private sector.  It's the privileged and powerful-- Presidents and Vice-Presidents at Universities, for example, who seem to have run up their wages and benefits (the article didn't mention the additional pension benefits I know some receive), with the assistance and approval of government-appointed boards...