Good for them. Emergency workers should be paid a living wage, and for SF $72k-$112k seems completely reasonable. > Firefighters are actually some of the highe

Good for them. Emergency workers should be paid a living wage, and for SF $72k-$112k seems completely reasonable. > Firefighters are actually some of the highest paid city workers. In 2013, 31 of the top 50 earners were from the SFFD. as the article you linked to mentions, this is largely due to one time payments due to people cashing out unused vacation and sick days when they retire.