Posted on 10/29/2010 8:20:58 AM PDT by jazminerose
In case you are still not clear why California is broke, here is a fascinating breakdown of public employee salaries. You can search by county, city or population. The population correlation can be especially noteworthy.
Take little Indio, for example, a sanctuary city, population 82,000 and average income somewhere below $20,000. It’s not hard to see that the city is grossly over staffed and overpaid:
The city manager alone earns well over $200,00 per annum.
Which explains why residents are constantly asked to vote new taxes for themselves.
To their great credit, the city did cut that from the previous city manager’s pay of $324,843. They have also forced city staffers to do some serious belt tightening after they managed to rack up an $805,000 credit card bill.
By all means, let’s give the reins back to a retread union hack next Tuesday.
http://lgcr.sco.ca.gov/
I don't know how to post a pic, there is a good one at the original link of a sign made by some unhappy taxpayers.
I picked a couple of small towns to look at, check this one out:
Sand City,CA - Population 312
City Workers = 30
10% work for the city - wow
http://lgcr.sco.ca.gov/CompensationDetail.aspx
Amazing, isn’t it? You could spend hours on that site & get furiouser & furiouser.
It’s going to affect all of us eventually when the rest of the taxpayers have to bail it out.
Every state should have a site like that.
Open the books for all to see.
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