Government employees salary

[kev374]

Someone told me that they work with an IT administrator who earns $130,000/yr. It is this high because he has been there for 20 years. He also will be getting a fat pension as a percentage of his salary when he reitres.
This is in the Dept. of Child Welfare services. Are government salaries this high? I am astonished to learn that salaries/packages in government are this high compared to the private sector!!!

Equivalent private sector salary would be $75,000-80,000 with no pension of course and nothing else.

[David J]

You can check for yourself. There seem to be some people that have a base salary of $60k and then in the most recent year have $70k of “other pay.” I’m guessing those people retired that year and cashed in all of their sick leave or something along those lines. I have no idea how their pension is computed.

State: http://www.sacbee.com/statepay/
San Diego County: http://gcc.sco.ca.gov/Reports/Counties/County.aspx?entityid=37&fiscalyear=2011

[moneymaker]

Anybody know when that info gets updated, looks like 2011 is the latest info.

[Ren]

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-12-10-federal-pay-salaries_N.htm

I especially like this part:

The highest-paid federal employees are doing best of all on salary increases. Defense Department civilian employees earning $150,000 or more increased from 1,868 in December 2007 to 10,100 in June 2009, the most recent figure available.

When the recession started, the Transportation Department had only one person earning a salary of $170,000 or more. Eighteen months later, 1,690 employees had salaries above $170,000.

[CA renter]

[quote=Ren]http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-12-10-federal-pay-salaries_N.htm

I especially like this part:

The highest-paid federal employees are doing best of all on salary increases. Defense Department civilian employees earning $150,000 or more increased from 1,868 in December 2007 to 10,100 in June 2009, the most recent figure available.

When the recession started, the Transportation Department had only one person earning a salary of $170,000 or more. Eighteen months later, 1,690 employees had salaries above $170,000.[/quote]

Wow. I’m surprised by this.

[ctr70]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-11/-822-000-worker-shows-california-leads-u-s-pay-giveaway.html

This was a great Bloomberg article about the abuses of state of CA employee compensation and how CA state employees are the highest paid in the nation.

And at the same time CA has the highest paid state employees in the nation, they go and raise income taxes even more with prop 30 passing in 2012. Even though before raising the CA state income tax, CA already had one of the highest state income taxes it the nation.

I’m thankful every day that I now live in WA State with NO state income tax and it’s not my problem anymore. Ahhhh life is good!

[CA renter]

[quote=ctr70]http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-11/-822-000-worker-shows-california-leads-u-s-pay-giveaway.html

This was a great Bloomberg article about the abuses of state of CA employee compensation and how CA state employees are the highest paid in the nation.

And at the same time CA has the highest paid state employees in the nation, they go and raise income taxes even more with prop 30 passing in 2012. Even though before raising the CA state income tax, CA already had one of the highest state income taxes it the nation.

I’m thankful every day that I now live in WA State with NO state income tax and it’s not my problem anymore. Ahhhh life is good![/quote]

And yet, we’re still allowing corporations, “investors”/landlords, and owners of vast tracts of some of our most valuable lands to pay well below-market property taxes. Eliminate Prop 13 protection for everyone except for owners of a single primary residence (maybe even keep the “protected” value below a certain threshold), and our financial problems would largely disappear. There’s a good chance we’d end up with a surplus, even!

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