High Salaries Ring a Bell

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/salary_scandals_stir_california_20110305/

A hospital executive pulling down $875,000 a year? How about a water official collecting $600,000? Those are among the salaries contained in a new round of public compensation disclosures by the California state controller in the wake of the pay scandal in Bell. —JCL

Los Angeles Times:

State Controller John Chiang has released a new round of compensation figures for public sector employees, including a Bay Area hospital executive who made about $875,000 in 2009, and a San Gabriel Valley water official who was paid close to $600,000.

Chiang updated his government employee salary database this week, adding data from 539 special districts across the state.

More at the link --

[Maraya1969]

1. Check out Florida power and light

And this is from 2008

FPL Group (FPL), the parent of Florida Power & Light, announced that its chief executive, Lewis Hay III, received $11.5 million in total compensation in 2008, a 9.9 percent increase from his compensation package in 2007.

Armando Olivera, president of the FPL utility, received $3.6 million, an increase of 11 percent. Armando Pimentel Jr. received $1.7 million in his first year as chief financial officer.

[TBF]

2. Oh but those are real jobs, not like teachers who just babysit.

:sarcasm: