In 2018, the SF median household income was $97k [1], which suggests a median individual income of about $76k [2]. An average private-sector employee receives b

In 2018, the SF median household income was $97k [1], which suggests a median individual income of about $76k [2]. An average private-sector employee receives benefits worth 42% of their wages/salary [3]. So a hypothetical median SF worker earning $76k in salary would receive about $32k in benefits, for about $108k total. So it seems to me that the "pooper scoopers" combined salary+benefits of $184k really is, in fact, extraordinarily high. (No comment on the rest of the article.) [1] https://www.businessinsider.com/weath-maps-cities-san-francisco-bay-area-2018-3#as-you-can-see-in-the-map-below-many-people-in-the-bright-blue-urban-centers-like-seattle-and-new-york-city-make-over-100000-1 https://www.businessinsider.com/weath-maps-cities-san-franci... [2] https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2022/demo/p60-276.pdf https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio... (I took the nationwide ratio of "$71k median household income" to "$56k median individual full-time year-round worker income" and estimated that the same ratio also applied to SF.) [3] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.nr0.htm https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.nr0.htm