The American Thinker weighs in on the recent North Bay 2013 data published to the site:

Forget the old-fashioned term “civil servants”; America’s new ruling class is government employees.  Would you like your kids to go to work for an outfit where employees average between two hundred grand and a quarter mill?  Forget about investment banks or law firms; tell them to go to work for a fire protection district in California…

Looking at my own town, Berkeley, I see that almost 50 people are earning over a quarter of a million dollars.  Wow!  I went into the wrong line of work.  These people get a lot of holidays and vacation days, too.

Read the rest here.