Posted on 10/13/2009 2:21:10 PM PDT by luckybogey
Nearly 100 City of Miami employees made more than $200,000 last year
Miami had only recently shed its notorious distinction as the nation’s poorest municipality, thanks to the buoying effects of the real estate boom, just in time to get clobbered by the nationwide recession/depression rooted in the collapse of that very boom. Now the good times are over, and the city faces declining revenues across the board...
In calendar year 2008, a total of 97 city employees received more than $200,000 in compensation, costing taxpayers more than $22.76 million, according to documents prepared by the city’s budget office and department of employee relations. Interestingly, 84 percent of those individuals were middle-to high level supervisors at the fire department...
But even without overtime, firefighters make a decent amount of money. According to Lt. Ignatius “Iggy” Carroll, Jr., spokesman for the fire department, the salary range for rank-and-file firefighters is between $44,685 and $67,993 per year. Officers make more. A fire lieutenant’s salary range is between $51,823 and $81,191. A fire captain’s is from $59,956 to $93,934. Chief fire officers are paid between $69,351 and $108,653. Assistant fire chiefs, deputy fire chiefs, and fire chiefs earn salaries between $133,134 and $223,391...
Firefighters, administrators, and department heads were not the only employees who received more than $200,000 in 2008, according to the city’s spreadsheets. Number two on the list was Fernando Acosta, a Miami police officer and sergeantat-arms for the Miami Commission. Acosta earned $295,075.22 in 2008, according to the city’s spreadsheet. Reached at the mayor’s office, Acosta had this to say: “I wish I made that much money.” Then he referred all questions to police Chief John Timoney. (Timoney is number four on the city’s list, at $290,532.66.)...
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“Reached at the mayor’s office, Acosta had this to say: “I wish I made that much money.””
Hmmm...
WHERE is that money going then, eh??
Funny how the reporter COMPLETELY missed that.
Think New Orleans, and all the ghost employment that was nearly 1/3 of the “Police Deptartment”. WHERE DID ALL THAT MONEY GO???
The news about firefighters is not surprising. They enjoy a certain level of cultural immunity usually reserved for teachers, libraries, parks, etc.
They are capitalizing on public faith in their service... whether they deserve it or not.
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