S.F.'s top-paid employee made $900K. Here's what every city worker gets paid

42 pointsposted 10 hours ago
by gmays
(sfchronicle.com)

12 Comments

digitalPhonix

3 hours ago

I knew before opening the page that it was someone in the police department.

I remember talking to a Seattle PD officer about how they could consistently earn more overtime hours in fortnight than there are in a fortnight with the right schedule/time-off choreography with everyone else in the department. And that’s on top of their “regular” hours.

nxm

an hour ago

Sounds like mismanagement on the part of city. Why are the tax payers not revolting?

lifestyleguru

6 hours ago

Welcome to the third world, America:)

greggoB

4 hours ago

In my experience, it's not so typical in the 3rd world to provide such a detailed level of transparency to be critiqued.

lifestyleguru

4 hours ago

In the 3rd world everyone knows anyway. Jealousy is even stronger force than transparency laws.

greggoB

4 hours ago

That's clearly not the point - it's not a function of everyone knowing, but rather a function of the attempt to cover it up. Waving defeatism as some kind of universal truth is neither particularly enlightening nor useful.

Amezarak

an hour ago

What about a high public salary implies corruption? If anything, it would seem to be a signal in the opposite direction - a very highly paid police officer is not out to collect bribes.

Also, is there any inherent reason why police salaries should not exceed "physician administrators, investment managers and top elected officials" and other fields the article mentions? Also noted in the article is that some of these people are working ~30 hours a week average in overtime (70 hour weeks.)

fakedang

5 hours ago

And here I thought the Asian police were corrupt as fuck.

greggoB

4 hours ago

It's not clear to me that this is a result of corruption - the article notes that a big driver is overtime pay, and that SF has struggled with hiring in recent years, which could be a legitimate cause.

Also note about the mayor: "Lurie is required to receive that salary, but donates nearly all of it back to the government, accepting a net pay of $1 for the calendar year".

fakedang

4 hours ago

There were a number of reports and observations some years back of NYPD officers gaming overtime pay to pay themselves more, in some cases even claiming it while doing other jobs (like bouncer duty, private protection, etc).

No shade against the mayor.