The $822,000-per-Year Bureaucrat and the Death of California
Over the years, I’ve shared some outrageous examples ofoverpaid bureaucrats.
- The chief bureaucrat of a low-income California city getting almost $800,000 per year.
- Cops in Oakland getting average compensation of $188,000.
- A school superintendent in New York raking in more than $500 thousand of annual compensation.
- A Philadelphia bureaucrat, after working only 2-1/2 years, nailing down a guaranteed pension of $50,000 per year.
- A New York school bureaucrat simultaneously getting a $225,000 salary and $300,000 pension.
- California taxpayers being forced to pay a fired bureaucrat $550,000 for unused vacation time.
- An employee of the New Jersey Turnpike system raking in annual compensation of $320,000.
Hopefully we’re all disgusted when insiders rig the system to rip off taxpayers. And I suspect you’re not surprised to see that the worst example on that list comes from California, which is in a race with Illinois to see which state can become the Greece of America.
Well, the Golden State has a new über-bureaucrat. Here are some of the jaw-dropping details from a Bloomberg report.
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If so, then the government should honor the workers made with public sector workers.
To the extent that some of the contracts are improper, you should complain about the public officials who made the agreements, not the workers who are following the law.