Police Chief Heather was always good for a giggle.
Posted on 04/19/2010 7:37:50 AM PDT by SmithL
One of the biggest bulges in San Francisco's budget crisis is the $86 million a year that the city spends on premium pay - money that rewards employees and managers for everything from working nights to having toiled for the city for 10 years.
For example, in addition to her $273,112-a-year salary, San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White earned enough in various pay premiums in 2009 to bring her total to $290,o27.
The chief's extra pay comes in the form of a "fire education incentive premium," which goes to all firefighters who have an associate's or bachelor's degree or 10 years in the Fire Department, and who complete the department's annual training requirements. Of course, those would be basic qualifications for any chief.
Hayes-White is not alone among Fire Department brass in raking in such bonus pay.
The top 10 earners in the department last year included a deputy chief, two assistant chiefs and three battalion chiefs, who received anywhere from $22,893 to $33,685 in premium pay.
Departmentwide, the premium pay total comes to about $20 million a year. It's one of the reasons San Francisco's firefighters on average earn $111,699 a year before overtime, according to the city's Human Resources Department.
Over at the Police Department, the annual premium pay bill totals $13 million. Unlike at the Fire Department, however, the premiums aren't broken down by position.
For workers in many city departments, there are premiums for working nights, for working the graveyard shift, for being bilingual. Many stationary engineers get a 7.5 percent premium for being qualified to repair heating and air-conditioning systems - something one would think they ought to know to get the job in the first place.
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is this extra taxed or is it in the form of a bonus like a Christmas bonus?
nearly forgot.
That frigging much money, WOW
Keep finding and posting these stories.
The conservatives need to demonize government workers. We need to make the private sector workers making minimum wage angry at government and government workers.
Liberal policies are bankrupting California and they have been doing so for decades which is leading the state to the edge of the precipice.
California is going the way of Greece.
California used to be the fifth best economy IN THE WORLD.
No longer.
Liberals, like they have done in other once great states such as Massachusetts, Illinois, Michigan, Nevada, New York and others, are responsible for the decline in California and all the other states named above. Liberals beholden to unions and their unsustainable pensions and benefits have bankrupted the states and are in the process of bankrupting the entire country.
Police Chief Heather was always good for a giggle.
You sre succeeding. Thanks for posting these outrageous compensations.
Aren’t bonuses taxed like any other inconme? I know my bonuses are.
Simple, premium pay tax increase to 120% of total premium pay.
Do I have to think for every politician out there?
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