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Uhm have you looked at some government salaries? It’s all posted online. In San Francisco there are plenty of government workers making well over $300K/year fo
by tempsy 7y ago
Uhm have you looked at some government salaries? It’s all posted online.
In San Francisco there are plenty of government workers making well over $300K/year for a safe secure job that you can coast in. That is part of the problem.
- sfkdjf9j3j 7y agoCan you link to the data you're talking about? I did some searching and I see about 20 people making more than $300k a year and almost all of them are director level positions.
- WillPostForFood 7y agohttps://publicpay.ca.gov/Reports/Cities/City.aspx?entityid=410&year=2018 https://publicpay.ca.gov/Reports/Cities/City.aspx?entityid=4... As of 2018, about 90 people making 300k or more in SF County, probably over 100 by now.
- Ancalagon 7y ago90 or 100 seems small in comparison to the number of tech workers in SF making that kind of cash
- tempsy 7y agoMost of that is equity comp for engineers. For government you have to factor in job security, generous pension and benefits, and guaranteed annual pay raises. Engineers have none of those things.
- rjpn 7y agoNot small if you consider total govt. employees in SF.
- chipotle_coyote 7y agoThe link that showed the 90 employees making $300K or over is a link to a page about San Francisco city employees specifically, and says there's 40,951 total. (And it is 90 exactly according to that page.) So is 0.2% of workers earning that much a lot compared to tech companies, do you think? How about employees making $200K or over? That's 1790, or just about 4%. $100K or over? 15997 employees, or around 39%. So over 60% of SF city employees make under $100K. The median salary, in fact, is just under $86K. I could be wrong, but I suspect that's lower than Facebook's median salary.
- tempsy 7y agoPension, overtime, benefits, job security.
- seppin 7y agoAccording to this website the single highest paid person in SF was a sole police officer making 1/2 million? https://i.imgur.com/8uj2HBU.png https://i.imgur.com/8uj2HBU.png
- artursapek 7y agoHush money
- tempsy 7y agoOvertime pay. There was a story about a BART janitor who made $250K or so in a year with overtime.
- hanniabu 7y agoCorrect, every cop I know is loaded due to overtime pay. You'd think it'd make more sense just to hire more cops out the agency, but then that cuts into everyone's earnings which discourages them from acting financially responsible.
- sfkdjf9j3j 7y agoIt's actually from a settlement that resulted in him getting several years of backpay at once.
- rjpn 7y agopolice offer making > 500k ???
- Consultant32452 7y agoThese systems are amazing. The rules are different everywhere, people game the systems, and the leadership is in on the game. My anecdata is from a different police force elsewhere in the country. There, your pension is based on the average of your last 2 years of service. When you reach retirement age, it is orchestrated for you to get a promotion and as much overtime (at time and a half) as you're able to work. So people double or triple their last years' salary and then retire making more than they legitimately made before the scheme. Millions and millions of dollars are stolen from the people just through this one law enforcement pension program.
- generatorguy 7y agoWow that is egregious. I've known professors whose pensions were 70% of the average of their best 4 years.