Posted on 07/18/2006 11:22:23 AM PDT by JZelle
No clear link exists between the D.C. government's rising salaries and the performance of city executives enjoying higher wages, city records show. For example, Lee E. Williams had earned $103,318 a year as the head of the D.C. Taxicab Commission, overseeing 15 employees. The city government boosted his salary by 3.5 percent, to $106,934, last year — just before Mr. Williams was fired for incompetence.
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The government of DC does only two things well - on a consistent basis, and here they are:
1) Ticket cars;
2) Tow cars.
End of story.
Everything else? A coin toss.
When most of your budget comes out of the federal treasury you can get by with anything. Stating you have to pay these kinds of salary's to get qualified people is a bunch of BS. they just think they are like a corp CEO.
I hate to tell you this but $100K is no big deal in DC. I'm not familiar with payscales for DC government employees, but I'd say the average federal government professional at the "journeyman" level makes at least $90K. This town is top heavy with 13/14/15 grades (your tax dollars at work). Check out the Fed DC area salary table on OPM's website:
http://www.opm.gov/oca/06tables/html/dcb.asp
It gets worse. Our government workers are screwing the private sector people like porn stars:
http://www.cato.org/pubs/tbb/tbb-0605-35.pdf
It's not so much the salary as the names of some of the titles.
Salaries are inflated in DC, for sure. Pencil pushers here make great money. In fact, you really don't need much of a title, or have any people working for you for that matter, to make $100K.
Merit...not a chance.
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