Posted on 10/07/2010 12:01:07 AM PDT by Libloather
199 L.A. County workers made at least $250,000 last year
The list comprises mostly medical personnel and department heads, but also includes firefighters, the sheriff and district attorney. Thirty employees made more than $80,000 in overtime.
By Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times
October 5, 2010
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The Times requested the base salary, overtime and "other earnings" for county employees whose total annual pay exceeded $250,000. "Other earnings" can include bonuses for special skills or responsibilities or unused benefits cashed out as taxable income, among other things. County officials were not immediately able to detail what types of additional payments went to Cooley and Baca.
No. 5 on the list was the county's chief executive, William T Fujioka, who made $403,140 in 2009. Four physicians earned more: Elaine Yang ($430,909), Gail Anderson Jr. ($421,648) and John McDonald ($413,807) at Harbor- UCLA Medical Center, and Christine Holschneider ($423,533) at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center.
Overtime played a big role, with only 65 people making the list on base salary alone. Thirty workers made more than $80,000 in overtime. Twenty-two of them work for the county Fire Department, four work for public hospitals, two were psychiatrists for the Mental Health Department, and two were physician specialists for the Sheriff's Department.
Four employees — all pilots for the Fire Department — made more in overtime than they did in base salary.
They are Charles Moreno, who earned $153,324 in overtime over a base salary of $140,504; Brian Novak, who earned $156,812 in overtime on top of a base salary of $125,769; Thomas Short, who earned $144,862 in overtime on top of a base salary of $140,504; and Patrick Stefanski, who earned $137,337 in overtime on top of a base salary of $127,633.
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I don’t mind if doctors make big money....they’re worth it generally and we know they succeeded at very lengthy and tought academic courses......
Thanks to our public-employee union—one I refused to join—I did quite well, and am now retired—happily!
It helped a lot that my colleagues—whom I disagreed with—were given an hour off early
to vote for their own raises. Over my 30-year career, I was repeatedly astonished that taxpayers rolled-over so easily!
Look at this way: It helps to raise the average earnings level.
As Gov. Arnie said, “A rising tide is nice for those who own big boats.”
This is a true story (I read on it about 18 months ago). At some university in California...the chief of campus security was in her fifties and choose to retire. She was pulling in around $250k a year. Naturally, her retirement was in the $175k range a year. The university refused to pick a real replacement, and opted for the number two person to run things for a year. At that point, the number two person retires as well. The campus near advertises the job....and the first retired chief....applies, and wins her old job back. She’s raking in the $175k pension, and the $250k regular pay now. All compliments of the taxpayers of California.
The blunt truth here is that the state is guaranteed to fail (it’s like watching the Titanic slicing against the iceberg now). We can sit and watch this event unfold. It may take five to ten years, but the state is finished off. Not even the federal government will be able to come to their rescue, and the court system will anchor their debts (the current pension) onto the state for decades. Every major business and industrial capability in the state...will pack up and leave within a decade.
All because of greed, and stupidity amongst California state and local executives over three decades.
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