By: Robert Fellner Los Angeles Daily News — 1/14/20 Overtime pay for Los Angeles firefighters is making national headlines again, thanks to eye-popping payouts that allowed several employees to pocket over $400,000 […]
The Los Angeles County Fire Department will ask voters to approve a property tax hike in March. The department has cited an increase in medical calls, as well as the need for […]
Hawthorne residents are paying the nation’s highest sales tax in order to sustain bloated pay packages for city workers, like the $717,258 that went to former Police Chief Robert Fager last year. […]
Overtime pay at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) hit a record-high $250 million last year, an increase of 84 percent from 2013, according to new pay data from […]
An Oakland fire captain, a police officer, and a civil engineer each made over $500,000 in pay and benefits last year, according to newly released 2018 pay data published on TransparentCalifornia.com. The […]
Today, Transparent California released new, 2018 pension payout data from the three pension funds serving the city and county of Los Angeles. The top earners were three members of the Los Angeles […]
Readers may have noticed that the 2017 Transparent California data for Los Angeles does not include the cost of benefits. The LA Daily News article, LA hides health care costs for individual employees […]
Great article in today’s LA Times that highlights how California public pension plans get around IRS limits designed to limit pensions to approximately $210,000 or less: Dozens of retired Los Angeles employees […]
On Monday, the Los Angeles County Office of Education and the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team (FCMAT) released their “Extraordinary Audit of Montebello Unified School District.” In the introduction, the audit cites […]
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 […]