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Re: California Highway Patrol salaries

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Post by cyen »

dotBen wrote: post #4
mikerhoads wrote: post #2

Interesting. 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?

I wonder if it would include something like injury compensation / some law enforcement-specific hazard pay... seems like it'd fit these large payouts.

Re: California Highway Patrol salaries

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Post by runT1ME »

tstegart wrote: post #20
tocomment wrote: post #19

OMG, why are these salaries so high? What's considered entry level for CHIPS? How much is that salary? Is this type of pay typical nationwide? I've been looking to get out of programming ...

Overtime.

No, it's not overtime. At least not being reported. if you click on a name they break it down, these guys are earning most of that in the 'other' category.

Re: California Highway Patrol salaries

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Post by SamAtt »

modeless wrote: post #6

Wow 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 tha…

I wouldn't trade jobs with a CHP officer either but I do have to wonder about the skill level. I'm sure it's harder than I think but the job still boils down to parking on the side of the freeway, spotting violators, chasing them for about a minute and then writing them a ticket. Is that really worth $48+ an hour?

Because that seems to be around the average pay (The CHP has a very powerful union so their base pay hours are capped at an average 40 per week). I'm not for big cuts but cut $20,000 a year off each salary and they're still making $80,000 a year which is pretty respectable

Re: California Highway Patrol salaries

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Post by ojbyrne »

dotBen wrote: post #4
mikerhoads wrote: post #2

Interesting. 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?

The explanatory text says: "Gross pay includes overtime, bonuses, housing allowances, sick leave payout, vacation payout and multiple other forms of cash compensation"

So "Other" would be everything but base pay and overtime. Admittedly "multiple other forms of cash compensation" leaves lots of possiblities.

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Post by thaumaturgy »

It's funny, one thing led to another earlier today and we found ourselves looking at the salaries for county workers in our area. Most of our county positions -- down to the road workers and clerical staff -- make more than I ever have.

I'm struggling every month, growing a business, working a ton of hours, and these goons are drawing at least $50/month from every taxpayer in our county.

I had to go outside and play for a while after that. It was extremely demoralizing. Coming back and seeing this didn't help.

Re: California Highway Patrol salaries

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Post by [deleted] »

dotBen wrote: post #4
mikerhoads wrote: post #2

Interesting. 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?

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Re: California Highway Patrol salaries

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Post by CamperBob »

davidmurphy wrote: post #10
rottencupcakes wrote: post #8

While 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.

Pay me $48/hour to camp behind an overpass with a box of donuts and a radar gun and I'll probably get over it.

Re: California Highway Patrol salaries

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Post by SamAtt »

runT1ME wrote: post #22
tstegart wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Overtime.

No, it's not overtime. At least not being reported. if you click on a name they break it down, these guys are earning most of that in the 'other' category.

The people over $100,000 a year seem to be making a lot in the other category. But the base pay seems around $85,000 to $100,000 for most...

http://www.sacbee.com/statepay/?agency=CALIFORNIA+HIGHWAY+PA...

Re: California Highway Patrol salaries

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Post by ojbyrne »

Just a little perspective, the 2 people at the top of the list (do search all) are football coaches making $2 million plus each year.

And as an inspirational aside suggesting anyone can make it big, one of them coached in the Canadian Football League. He was probably lucky to make $40k a year there.

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