California Highway Patrol salaries
sacbee.com
California Highway Patrol salaries
1–10 of 182 posts
Re: California Highway Patrol salaries
#2Interesting. I dug down into one of the actual officers close to the last page. In 2008 he made a total of $156,703.56 and it breaks down like this - Base pay: $75,782.22, Overtime: $2,572.98, Other:$78,348.3
Does anyone have an idea what they mean by "other"?
http://www.sacbee.com/statepay/salary-details/?firstname=Gra...
Re: California Highway Patrol salaries
#3Interesting. I dug down into one of the actual officers close to the last page. In 2008 he made a total of $156,703.56 and it breaks down like this - Base pay: $75,782.22, Overtime: $2,572.98, Other:$78,348.3 Does anyone have an idea what they mean by "other"? http://www.sacbee.com/statepay/salary-details/?firstname=Gra...
The sum of Base & Overtime is $78,355.20... which is really close to Other. I don't know why the total is the sum, though.
Re: California Highway Patrol salaries
#4Interesting. I dug down into one of the actual officers close to the last page. In 2008 he made a total of $156,703.56 and it breaks down like this - Base pay: $75,782.22, Overtime: $2,572.98, Other:$78,348.3 Does anyone have an idea what they mean by "other"? http://www.sacbee.com/statepay/salary-details/?firstname=Gra...
And the same with this guy, who looks like the highest paid officer (ie not chief/sergent/etc):
http://www.sacbee.com/statepay/salary-details/?firstname=Wil...
Base pay: $103,819.29, Overtime: $3,954.89, Other:$127,385.25
Total pay: $235,159.43
I'd love to know what OTHER includes. I'm guessing pension contribution but what else?
Re: California Highway Patrol salaries
#5It'd be interesting to get comment from the highway patrol about what the "other" category is. Looking at the individual officers per-year, "other" was around $4,000 in 2007 and 2008, but jumped to about $140,000 in 2009. Kind of makes me want to become a California Highway Patrolman.
Re: California Highway Patrol salaries
#6Wow this is weird, I went to elementary school with one of these guys and now I can look up his salary on the Internet. His 2009 pay is more than my base salary this year at Google, though I will probably make more with my bonus. However, he's on a very steep upward trend so his 2010 pay will probably be more than mine again.
I don't think I'd trade jobs, though, police work isn't for me. (Edit: also just noticed that his pay includes quite a bit of overtime...)
Re: California Highway Patrol salaries
#7I have two brothers that are in the Highway Patrol. Both are listed in the database. I'm pretty surprised to see the size of the increase in base pay from year to year. In their two listings, the Other category was negligible.
I'm not sure what the Other category is, but it could be a calculation of the extra benefits they get that isn't paid directly to them. For example, it may be accrued time off that they save up for years (rollover) and then cash out. Maybe I'll ask my brothers if they have any idea.
Re: California Highway Patrol salaries
#8While I understand how voters often want "public accountability" and itemized breakdowns of state budget, something like this seems like a mistake.
There was another thread on the front page earlier today about why companies keep salaries very private. There are reasons why private companies do that. Forcing a government institution to publish these like this must make for interesting inter office politics.
Re: California Highway Patrol salaries
#9Wait until the pensions kick in.
Re: California Highway Patrol salaries
#10While I understand how voters often want "public accountability" and itemized breakdowns of state budget, something like this seems like a mistake. There was another thread on the front page earlier today about why companies keep salaries very private. There are reasons why private companies do that. Forcing a government institution to publish these like this must make for interesting inter office politics.
There was an article in the Washington Post (I think) about this very topic. It really is a harm to morale.