the psychiatrist who was paid 822,302, was paid mostly for vacation time not taken. Elsewhere in the article it suggests his pay was about $400k/year. (Still high, but not *as* outrageous).
A fix for the excessive vacation pay would be to apply the CA labor law minimums to state employees. CA Law says that employers must allow employees to be able to care over 1.5x their annual vacation time. I know because my company allows only 40 hours to be rolled over from each calendar year – except in CA, where the law is different.
So if an employee has 3 weeks vacation/year – they could carry over up to 4.5 weeks of unused time, if the company sets this policy.
The article also suggests that CA’s excess vacation time is in part due to the unpaid furloughs state workers had to go through. They were required to use unpaid furlough time BEFORE using vacation time. so less vacation time was actually used,… and it accumulated.
I’m not suggesting these guys aren’t overpaid. I’m just looking at the details of the numbers.
