Posted on 05/08/2008 10:14:10 AM PDT by John Jorsett
Really! I knew firemen who had to take a second job to make ends meet. That’s just grift off-the-wall.
I agree they should compensated fairly but $200,000?!?!?!
http://agency.governmentjobs.com/vallejo/default.cfm?SearchLetter=F&action=agencyspecs&AgencyID=1108
That is the City of Vallejo’s HR page which lists salaries of firefighters. Looks like they actually make about $81k a yr base salary. The newspapers in California are famous for taking the top income earners in a department and posting it as if it is a regular salary, it is not. Most of the top incomes are made via overtime. Hubby is a retired firefighter and used to make tons of OT money. Of course he was gone from home for mnths at a time. The papers never mention it though.
See post #23.
Break out the speed traps!
It's even worse than that. See: City of Vallejo, Salaries above $100,000/yr. ML/NJ
In our small town, much of the budget goes to policemen and firemen, too. These are essential services of a city, and imho they top the list. Vallejo probably does not generate huge revenues, altho it might? Isn’t it up by the Port and Suisun Bay? And more of a blue collar community?
Santa Rosa is another liberal city that has awarded firemen 80-100 % retirement of their anual wage. Tom McClintock has been warning of this for years. His warning is that the baby boomers will be retiring from city and state jobs with these rediculous retirement packages and no money in the till to pay them.
Uhm...you better sit down...they make that much money and only work...11-14 days a month..yep.
That should put a cloud on real estate titles. Residents owning real estate within the city limits must be overjoyed.
The salaries alone are pretty ridiculous, but it’s the retirement packages that are the real kicker. These things are better than just about anything you could get in the private sector. The equivalent salary a private-sector employee would have to make just to save an equal amount for retirement would be crazy. Easily over $100K for most employees.
I thought that in California, your assessment was fixed by the year you bought your house (Prop 13) + 2% per year. So if you bought a house in 1978, it would be assessed at 1978 levels, plus 2% per year. But the identical house next door that sold in 2006 would be assessed at 2006 prices.
Most people live in a house only about five years. Most of the people purchasing houses in 1978 have probably moved on. Very few Californians stay in a community twenty years. Look it up yourself. How many people who bought houses since 2000 have had to deal with increased property taxes ___________ ? Real estate values have gone down about 40% ++++ since 2005. Tax assessments do not go down automatically. Appeals must be filed when properties are over-valued by the county.
I don't want to know how much for so-called "education" and welfare, and future unfunded obligations (retirement).
You don't get out much, do you.
The nature of firefighting changed radically and permanently around the mid-60s. Their salary should have been inmmediately cut in half.
Pretty much they are... I live here and I’ve long been appalled at the utter mismanagement that goes on. Especially since the Navy Yard at Mare Island closed. This was a one-industry town with no provision for such an eventuality, though I used to tell anyone interested that Mare Island could be shut down and then this town would die. Sad to say, I was right.
Thank you very much for the demographical information....
That's low!
That is the same information i have.
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