Non-salary CA budget cuts

[Nor-LA-SD-guy]

[quote=Eugene][quote=meadandale]
There is no justification for salaries AS HIGH or higher than the private sector IN CONJUNCTION WITH gold plated retirement benefits.

I mean, come on, retiring at 50 with 100% of your highest salary FOR LIFE?[/quote]

If you believe that, why are you still employed in the private sector?

Senior programmers often make 100-120K in San Diego, to 150K in Silicon Valley. An equivalent state job for a guy with similar experience would pay 60-75K. People ONLY take those public sector jobs because of benefits. Because public sector salaries suck.

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Not L.A. city, I know line men working for LADWP making over 150K a year, same for fire men and police.

And yea I kick myself for not grabing one of these Jobs when I was young, I say if you are not going to really make something of your self (doctor etc…) then grab a city job while you are yong and stick with it, that would be my advice.

[Eugene]

[quote=Nor-LA-SD-guy]
Not L.A. city, I know line men working for LADWP making over 150K a year, same for fire men and police.

[/quote]

SDPD pays its officers 50-75K/year before overtime and benefits. And you have to be there a long time to qualify for the higher end of the range. If officers work overtime, it’s only fair that they would be paid more. You work double time, you get double salary.

https://apps.sandiego.gov/pjaol/currjob/control?view=OpenJobListing&job_category_cd=Safety+Srv

Also, that is not directly relevant to the discussion, because fire & police officers are paid from city and county budgets, not from the state budget. CHP officers may be paid from the state budget, but I’m not 100% sure of that either.

[Eugene]

[quote=Nor-LA-SD-guy]
Not L.A. city, I know line men working for LADWP making over 150K a year, same for fire men and police.

[/quote]

SDPD pays its officers 50-75K/year before overtime and benefits. And you have to be there a long time to qualify for the higher end of the range. If officers work overtime, it’s only fair that they would be paid more. You work double time, you get double salary.

https://apps.sandiego.gov/pjaol/currjob/control?view=OpenJobListing&job_category_cd=Safety+Srv

Also, that is not directly relevant to the discussion, because fire & police officers are paid from city and county budgets, not from the state budget. CHP officers may be paid from the state budget, but I’m not 100% sure of that either.

[Eugene]

[quote=Nor-LA-SD-guy]
Not L.A. city, I know line men working for LADWP making over 150K a year, same for fire men and police.

[/quote]

SDPD pays its officers 50-75K/year before overtime and benefits. And you have to be there a long time to qualify for the higher end of the range. If officers work overtime, it’s only fair that they would be paid more. You work double time, you get double salary.

https://apps.sandiego.gov/pjaol/currjob/control?view=OpenJobListing&job_category_cd=Safety+Srv

Also, that is not directly relevant to the discussion, because fire & police officers are paid from city and county budgets, not from the state budget. CHP officers may be paid from the state budget, but I’m not 100% sure of that either.

[Eugene]

[quote=Nor-LA-SD-guy]
Not L.A. city, I know line men working for LADWP making over 150K a year, same for fire men and police.

[/quote]

SDPD pays its officers 50-75K/year before overtime and benefits. And you have to be there a long time to qualify for the higher end of the range. If officers work overtime, it’s only fair that they would be paid more. You work double time, you get double salary.

https://apps.sandiego.gov/pjaol/currjob/control?view=OpenJobListing&job_category_cd=Safety+Srv

Also, that is not directly relevant to the discussion, because fire & police officers are paid from city and county budgets, not from the state budget. CHP officers may be paid from the state budget, but I’m not 100% sure of that either.

[Eugene]

[quote=Nor-LA-SD-guy]
Not L.A. city, I know line men working for LADWP making over 150K a year, same for fire men and police.

[/quote]

SDPD pays its officers 50-75K/year before overtime and benefits. And you have to be there a long time to qualify for the higher end of the range. If officers work overtime, it’s only fair that they would be paid more. You work double time, you get double salary.

https://apps.sandiego.gov/pjaol/currjob/control?view=OpenJobListing&job_category_cd=Safety+Srv

Also, that is not directly relevant to the discussion, because fire & police officers are paid from city and county budgets, not from the state budget. CHP officers may be paid from the state budget, but I’m not 100% sure of that either.

[Nor-LA-SD-guy]

[quote=Eugene][quote=Nor-LA-SD-guy]
Not L.A. city, I know line men working for LADWP making over 150K a year, same for fire men and police.

[/quote]

SDPD pays its officers 50-75K/year before overtime and benefits. And you have to be there a long time to qualify for the higher end of the range. If officers work overtime, it’s only fair that they would be paid more. You work double time, you get double salary.

https://apps.sandiego.gov/pjaol/currjob/control?view=OpenJobListing&job_category_cd=Safety+Srv

Also, that is not directly relevant to the discussion, because fire & police officers are paid from city and county budgets, not from the state budget. CHP officers may be paid from the state budget, but I’m not 100% sure of that either.[/quote]

So show me a software engineer not working 50-60 hours a week and I would say that is a lucky engineer. (if not just a temporary employee if you know what I mean)

[Nor-LA-SD-guy]

[quote=Eugene][quote=Nor-LA-SD-guy]
Not L.A. city, I know line men working for LADWP making over 150K a year, same for fire men and police.

[/quote]

SDPD pays its officers 50-75K/year before overtime and benefits. And you have to be there a long time to qualify for the higher end of the range. If officers work overtime, it’s only fair that they would be paid more. You work double time, you get double salary.

https://apps.sandiego.gov/pjaol/currjob/control?view=OpenJobListing&job_category_cd=Safety+Srv

Also, that is not directly relevant to the discussion, because fire & police officers are paid from city and county budgets, not from the state budget. CHP officers may be paid from the state budget, but I’m not 100% sure of that either.[/quote]

So show me a software engineer not working 50-60 hours a week and I would say that is a lucky engineer. (if not just a temporary employee if you know what I mean)

[Nor-LA-SD-guy]

[quote=Eugene][quote=Nor-LA-SD-guy]
Not L.A. city, I know line men working for LADWP making over 150K a year, same for fire men and police.

[/quote]

SDPD pays its officers 50-75K/year before overtime and benefits. And you have to be there a long time to qualify for the higher end of the range. If officers work overtime, it’s only fair that they would be paid more. You work double time, you get double salary.

https://apps.sandiego.gov/pjaol/currjob/control?view=OpenJobListing&job_category_cd=Safety+Srv

Also, that is not directly relevant to the discussion, because fire & police officers are paid from city and county budgets, not from the state budget. CHP officers may be paid from the state budget, but I’m not 100% sure of that either.[/quote]

So show me a software engineer not working 50-60 hours a week and I would say that is a lucky engineer. (if not just a temporary employee if you know what I mean)

[Nor-LA-SD-guy]

[quote=Eugene][quote=Nor-LA-SD-guy]
Not L.A. city, I know line men working for LADWP making over 150K a year, same for fire men and police.

[/quote]

SDPD pays its officers 50-75K/year before overtime and benefits. And you have to be there a long time to qualify for the higher end of the range. If officers work overtime, it’s only fair that they would be paid more. You work double time, you get double salary.

https://apps.sandiego.gov/pjaol/currjob/control?view=OpenJobListing&job_category_cd=Safety+Srv

Also, that is not directly relevant to the discussion, because fire & police officers are paid from city and county budgets, not from the state budget. CHP officers may be paid from the state budget, but I’m not 100% sure of that either.[/quote]

So show me a software engineer not working 50-60 hours a week and I would say that is a lucky engineer. (if not just a temporary employee if you know what I mean)

[Nor-LA-SD-guy]

[quote=Eugene][quote=Nor-LA-SD-guy]
Not L.A. city, I know line men working for LADWP making over 150K a year, same for fire men and police.

[/quote]

SDPD pays its officers 50-75K/year before overtime and benefits. And you have to be there a long time to qualify for the higher end of the range. If officers work overtime, it’s only fair that they would be paid more. You work double time, you get double salary.

https://apps.sandiego.gov/pjaol/currjob/control?view=OpenJobListing&job_category_cd=Safety+Srv

Also, that is not directly relevant to the discussion, because fire & police officers are paid from city and county budgets, not from the state budget. CHP officers may be paid from the state budget, but I’m not 100% sure of that either.[/quote]

So show me a software engineer not working 50-60 hours a week and I would say that is a lucky engineer. (if not just a temporary employee if you know what I mean)

[Eugene]

General fund spending breakdown from the original 2008-09 budget, excepting K-12 (which is, as we all know, underfunded compared to the rest of the country and we probably don’t want to cut K-12 any deeper than we are):

Health and Human Services 49.6%
Higher Education 19.3%
Corrections and Rehabilitation 16.5%
Legislative, Judicial, Executive 6.1%
Other 8.5%

In the HHS category, 40% of money goes to Medi-Cal and 20-25% to the Department of Social Services.

Higher Education category is almost entirely comprised by subsidies to UC/CSU/community college programs in order to keep the education affordable for locals.

[Eugene]

General fund spending breakdown from the original 2008-09 budget, excepting K-12 (which is, as we all know, underfunded compared to the rest of the country and we probably don’t want to cut K-12 any deeper than we are):

Health and Human Services 49.6%
Higher Education 19.3%
Corrections and Rehabilitation 16.5%
Legislative, Judicial, Executive 6.1%
Other 8.5%

In the HHS category, 40% of money goes to Medi-Cal and 20-25% to the Department of Social Services.

Higher Education category is almost entirely comprised by subsidies to UC/CSU/community college programs in order to keep the education affordable for locals.

[Eugene]

General fund spending breakdown from the original 2008-09 budget, excepting K-12 (which is, as we all know, underfunded compared to the rest of the country and we probably don’t want to cut K-12 any deeper than we are):

Health and Human Services 49.6%
Higher Education 19.3%
Corrections and Rehabilitation 16.5%
Legislative, Judicial, Executive 6.1%
Other 8.5%

In the HHS category, 40% of money goes to Medi-Cal and 20-25% to the Department of Social Services.

Higher Education category is almost entirely comprised by subsidies to UC/CSU/community college programs in order to keep the education affordable for locals.

[Eugene]

General fund spending breakdown from the original 2008-09 budget, excepting K-12 (which is, as we all know, underfunded compared to the rest of the country and we probably don’t want to cut K-12 any deeper than we are):

Health and Human Services 49.6%
Higher Education 19.3%
Corrections and Rehabilitation 16.5%
Legislative, Judicial, Executive 6.1%
Other 8.5%

In the HHS category, 40% of money goes to Medi-Cal and 20-25% to the Department of Social Services.

Higher Education category is almost entirely comprised by subsidies to UC/CSU/community college programs in order to keep the education affordable for locals.

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