Posted on 07/12/2019 11:06:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Sacramento
California’s cities, counties, and public agencies have secured a record tax windfall in recent years, as property tax collections soar, yet they continue to cry poor-mouth. There’s not enough money, they say, to provide adequate public services. Government officials and public-sector unions already have hatched a plan for the 2020 ballot that would dramatically raise property tax on commercial property owners by undermining Proposition 13’s tax protections.
But a new report from the Orange County Register’s Teri Sforza hints at why these agencies never have enough money to do their jobs. Based on data from the state controller’s office, she found that “More than 100 city and county workers earned total compensation exceeding a half-million dollars in Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside and Orange counties last year.” One need only look at the Transparent California database to see that this is no aberration.
One Orange County city, Placentia, decided recently to exit its contract with the Orange County Fire Authority and start its own fire department as a way to gain control of spiraling compensation costs. No wonder. We see page after page of OCFA employees earning total compensation of hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. The top earner received $534,000 in total pay and benefits — nearly five times the base salary of $117,000 a year. This is no aberration. Pull the data from any agency and you’ll be shocked by the pay levels.
The average California firefighter at the county and city level earns nearly $200,000 a year in total compensation for a minimal work week (and they’re paid while sleeping). State-level firefighters earn close to $150,000. Police sergeants, city managers, you name it — they often earn $300,000 or more in pay and benefit packages. Those numbers include only the funded portion of the equation.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Government, its party, its politics, its leftist social-engineering - all funded by massive spending and massive debt - in our printed, fiat, manipulated currency, courtesy of the Federal Reserve.
Meanwhile the President of the U.S. earns $400,000 plus a $50,000 expense account. Trump has declined the salary.
Engineers working 80hr work weeks for Apple are 1/2 that.
>>The top earner received $534,000 in total pay and benefits<<
Probably Battalion Chief. I did a Payroll implementation for a county and that is about the pay he got. It turns out that he is considered “on call with pay” (which is about 3/5 his base salary) 24 X 7.
It’s good to be in on the corruption.
Not so good for the citizens.
Another good reason not to allow state taxes to be deducted from federal. Don’t subsidize crappy states that allow this stuff. You want to pay 500k for state workers? Pay it out of state taxes.
In a socialist state the only place to be is in government. The population pays its “fair share”, the government takes its.
“Engineers working 80hr work weeks for Apple are 1/2 that.”
Because Apple needs to make a profit, and you don’t do that by paying people 2 or 3 times what they’re actually worth.
Here in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, an average cop with a few years in has a base pay as good or better than mine, a tech guy with over 20 years experience - with nothing more than a high school education and maybe a community college “degree” in law enforcement. And they can expect that pay to just keep going up over the years, along with accumulating sick and vacation time, and a pension like I’ve never had and never will.
Teachers make out equally well, or better. Teachers are valuable (at least some of them are), but in a free market they wouldn’t make nearly as much as they do. Especially as the barriers to entry (an degree from the Teacher’s college) are so low (easily obtained, compared to most other degrees).
Nope. Not surprised at all. Government at all levels has figured out that free taxpayer dollars are theirs for the taking.
All government employees are grotesquely overpaid, and receive additional lucrative benefits.
Many double-dip as well, working for multiple agencies and drawing multiple pensions.
Nauseating.
Here is the list for San Jose, CA PD.
Most earn over $200k and may over $300k
Nearly everyone on the list earns over $100k
https://www.kaggle.com/sanjosedata/employee-compensation-plan-2017
With the high cost of living, and the high taxes at various levels, the $500k ends up being around $100,000 (still good pay, btw) .
Who can afford the high home prices in California, for example?
$ocialism Is Legal Plunder - The Law - Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)
CALI FIREMAN POCKETS ANNUAL MILLION DOLLAR PENSION
A Los Angeles fireman retired in his 50s with a pension of over 1 million dollars per year with lifetime medical benefits.
Job Title: Assistant Chief---Retired 2010---Years service 32
Rec'd from L/A Fire and Police Employees’ Pension Fund 2015: $1,164,022.65 annual
Lifetime Health Benefits $17,286.69 annual (Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Divide and conquer. Use this information to pit government unions and government workers against each other, and to pit the citizens of the state/city/county against the local government.
Our side tries, but fails in painting the Left as big school, big university, big government pay like they do with CEOs...we fail miserably.
We need to show these salaries and equate them to, “why do you want to rob children of their textbooks, art supplies, field days, musical instruments because big school and their big salaries take school lunches from the children. Same can be said for the United Way.
I would bet not one of them contributes a single positive thing to the state and if you fired every one of them, absolutely nobody would notice
“Job Title: Assistant Chief-—Retired 2010-—Years service 32
Rec’d from L/A Fire and Police Employees’ Pension Fund 2015: $1,164,022.65 annual
Lifetime Health Benefits $17,286.69 annual (Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...”
How about a lifetime of paying into Social Security. If the government kept their hands off it and invested it modestly, the payoff would be at least a million as well.
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