partly because they participate in Social Security. They average, including social security and medical benefits……wait for it…..41k a year total. And that’s the highest paid county is So cal. ventura County was #2.
That wasn’t for ditch diggers, they looked at a few job classifications “The analysis looked at the retirement benefits of office assistants, equipment operators, social workers, deputy sheriffs, sheriff’s sergeants, sheriff’s captains, registered nurses and district attorney investigators.”
So at the end of the article, public outcry has caused reccomendations for them to reduce benefits to 60%, A rough estimate is about 24k a year. You people get your panties in a bunch over that.
But the same newspaper on the same day details the city manager of escondido making some 250k with benefits to 350k and 10 weeks of vacation a year.
In that second article, in the comments, someone brings up that the county CEO with 10x the employees and 25x the budget makes the same coin.
Now that makes no sense, but those few individuals only serve to inflame the public and sell newspapers, when the rank and file local gov’t folks aren’t getting what everyone is complaining about and yet those are the folks who will endure the biggest cuts.
maybe the fed and the state can learn something from the locals, last i checked, So Cal isn’t a cheap place to live, yet the highest average benefit in so cal is 41k (which includes ss and med) that’s a number I can live with and since I pay my taxes in that county, I’m cool with it.
In the first article, look at the options. In 1999 and 2000, they didn’t set aside a nickel for pensions. Funny, I owned property those years, I don’t remember getting a discount on my property taxes those years
