Posted on 07/29/2013 11:36:26 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus
Inside Edition: Newport Beach Lifeguards Make $200,000 and Can Retire at Age 50
The popular TV show Inside Edition does an expose on lifeguard compensation in Newport Beach, California:
(Video)
How can this be happening?
Stop the insanity!
What is wrong with these people???
Can’t they find Mexicans for $12/hr like everyone else???
200K as in Two Hundred Thousand....U.S. Dollars????
SURELY this must have been a typo somewhere down the line??
Newport Beach??
The only lifeguard who was EVER worth that much was Pamela Anderson, and that itself works out to $100K per brain cell.
200K / Yr won’t even buy a condo near the beach in Newport Beach.
Qualifies as subsistence wages, they took pity on Lance the Surfer.
per brain cell?
or something else that she would have two of.
David Hasselhoff makes even more than that.
200K / Yr won’t even buy a condo near the beach in Newport Beach.
....then I hope they find homes or condos 50 miles inland.
Somehow, Newport Beach will survive.
I guess the city of Newport - which makes a lot of revenue every year on beach-going tourism, thinks (a) its life guards and their occupations are “above average” compared to the rest of its citizens; whose median household income is still high, at $144,000, and (b) with median home prices of $1mil+ they want to be sure their life guards can afford to live locally.
As for retirement at 50 - that is always a wasteful and expensive option for pension funds.
Just guessin.
I guess that explains the big smiles.
More likely $2-3million, and the $200k would just pay monthly maintenance fee/yr for condo ass’n.
A good job to get if you can it, but only if you are related to someone or owned by someone with the power to anoint you with the position.
I was born and raised there, and after school and on the weekends I would always call Logan Lockaby’s Surf Report, (this was pre-internet!) and Logan would tell us how high the surf was, if it was glassy or choppy, or if there were rip tide or red flag conditions.
Logan was a great lifeguard! Always helped us kids, watched everyone, saved tons of lives, he was an essential part of Newport Beach surfer’s lives for many years.
They really are essential to the beach. $200,000, I dunno, but certainly not minimum wage. They deserve as much as white-collar management positions.
Ed
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