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Cities pay huge salaries despite fiscal crises. By Erin McCormick, Christopher Heredia, Carolyn Jones. Sunday, March 30, 2008
News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Sun Mar 30, 2008 4:29 PM EDT
Article Source: The San Francisco Chronicleadvertisement
A Chronicle examination of top salaries in the Bay Area's three biggest cities last year indicates that employee compensation and perks in those cities are similar to - and in some cases more lucrative than - those blamed for pushing Vallejo to the edge of financial doom.
In Vallejo, a midsize city of 121,000, there were 292 municipal employees who earned more than $100,000 last year. But in Oakland, with roughly three times more residents, 1,333 city workers were paid six figures in the same period. San Jose, a city of almost a million people, had 2,312. And San Francisco, which serves as a city and county government for its 809,000 residents, had more than 8,000.
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Such huge accumulations of overtime earnings are often locked in to cities' pay structures because of policies that require minimum staffing levels for police, firefighters and nurses.
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#1 - Sun Mar 30, 2008 4:30 PM EDT{"commentId":1638271,"authorDomain":"tacitus13"}
A Chronicle examination of top salaries in the Bay Area's three biggest cities last year indicates that employee compensation and perks in those cities are similar to - and in some cases more lucrative than - those blamed for pushing Vallejo to the edge of financial doom.
This is what happens when people get to set salaries for themselves and their friends.
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