The total pension benefits promised by the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) increased 886 percent from 1987-2016 — a rate 21 times greater than the cumulative increase in the state’s population, […]
Despite the fact that local government workers in Marin County receive wages higher than local government workers in over 99 percent of counties nationwide — even after adjusting for regional cost differences […]
Update: Strike was approved on 6/20/18. The average wage for Marin County local government workers is richer than what their peers in 99.8 percent of counties nationwide receive, according to new wage data […]
Today, Transparent California — California’s largest public pay database — released previously unseen 2017 pay data for the City of Oakland. Fourteen Oakland city employees received over $400,000 apiece in pay and […]
Overtime pay that was at least triple his regular salary in each of the past four years allowed Los Angeles firefighter Donn Thompson to collect a combined $1.67 million in total earnings […]
Total employee compensation for San Jose city workers hit a record-high $1 billion last year, according to newly released 2017 pay data from TransparentCalifornia.com. More so than nearly any other California city, […]
Today, Transparent California — the state’s largest public pay database — released 2017 employee compensation data for 175 California cities and counties. In 2017, San Francisco spent $4.56 billion on employee compensation […]
