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I like how you can click on a person's representative dot and follow them through the different sorting metrics. One point stood out to me: how does Assistant Treasurer Ms. Collier get $289,534 in "other" pay? The raw data provided didn't offer any details, and http://www.mercurynews.com/salaries/bay-area/2012 classifies "Other" as lump sum payouts for vacation, sick-leave, bonuses and comp-time. How does the assista…
I don't think I'd feel comfortable if someone posted my name, title, and salary along with everyone I worked with to a public website.
To be fair, that information isn't private. It is available for anyone to find.
The coloured dots are cute and all, but if the goal is to make visually apparent the relationship between salary and union membership, some more traditional visualisations might have made this clearer. For example boxplots broken down by union.
Yeah... I'm honestly not sure what I'm supposed to be seeing with this visualization. :(
I like how you can click on a person's representative dot and follow them through the different sorting metrics. One point stood out to me: how does Assistant Treasurer Ms. Collier get $289,534 in "other" pay? The raw data provided didn't offer any details, and http://www.mercurynews.com/salaries/bay-area/2012 classifies "Other" as lump sum payouts for vacation, sick-leave, bonuses and comp-time. How does the assista…
Perhaps she retired and was awarded the value of her accrued vacation time?
http://blog.sfgate.com/matierandross/2013/07/24/barts-golden...
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Perhaps she retired and was awarded the value of her accrued vacation time?
That's exactly what happened. She had been employed for 21 years and accrued that much PTO over that period. http://blog.sfgate.com/matierandross/2013/07/24/barts-golden...
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That's exactly what happened. She had been employed for 21 years and accrued that much PTO over that period. http://blog.sfgate.com/matierandross/2013/07/24/barts-golden...
I'm just going to add that I think it's silly to get paid your last salary for vacation time you earned when you were 25. While I don't care for caps on the accrued time, I see nothing unfair about scaling the time by your salary - such that if you have 100 vacation days and you get a 10% raise you now have 90 vacation days.
But now you know exactly why people save up vacation like this: To get a larger payout at the end of the career.
Personally I think unused vacation days should be savable for 2 years, and then are automatically paid at the current salary rate.
Hey, so... this is a sorta good time to ask. I assume this website's visualization was meant to spark some discussion. Do people on HN support/condemn the BART strike(s)? I've always been under the impression that the huge salaries being reported were some how an exaggeration. Because of this, I support the BART strike(s)... but perhaps my impression is wrong. Also, the strike doesn't impact me nearly as much as some…
Here is my perspective as a daily BART rider where 99% of the time I also have a bike, as well as often travelling with small kids/strollers (Forgive my BART Rage): If you have ever taken a BART elevator; every single BART employee should be fired, here is why: BART elevators, in 100% of my experience over the years has been a cesspool covered in urine and who knows what. EVERY time I take the elevator - I hit the em…
Please stop wasting everyone's time with your abuse of the emergency help button. Your problem is not an emergency.
Additionally, you do not "have to pay" for the experience, you choose to do so.
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Salary data on public employees is public data in most (all?) states. For example, the salaries of all of Texas' 674,000 employees: http://www.texastribune.org/library/data/government-employee...
Coming from Canada, I find it amazing that 30% of the top 25 salaries are related to athletics. Really goes to show how important sports are in the US.