California bill to cap state employee pay makes it out of committee
By Jon Ortiz, Sacramento Bee
A bill that would cap California state employees’ pay at no more than what the governor earns cleared the Senate Public Employee and Retirement Committee on Wednesday on a 3-1 vote.
Senate Bill 1368, authored by Sen. Joel Anderson, R-Alpine, would limit the annual pay of state officers and employees, including overtime, to the governor’s salary, currently $173,987 per year.
The measure exempts current salaries set by contracts but requires the limitations to take effect for those employees once those deals expire. Anderson’s bill also includes exemptions for public safety workers and judges.
With the governors salary at $173,987 per year, are we suppose to feel good about this? This doesn’t even come across as a good first step. It comes across as if they think the citizens are stupid!
Careabout, maybe the citizens are stupid, maybe that is the problem.
At the very least the citizens are in large part ignorant on these compensation related issues.
It’s been a growing problem for years, that is a big part of why I moved out of the failed state of California. I am not paying for civil servants to live like kings.
No bailouts!
Of course the Obama Administration just yesterday committed billions and billions of our tax dollars for bailouts of Europe government employee excesses – but who noticed?…
Maybe Americans are just stupid.
Does that include football coaches at state universities? They’re gonna be ticked off!
Government lies and hides to us,
citizens snore….
Some are starting to realize that this is wrong, most are just … well, snoring.
Ignorance is bliss, but then the bliss wears off and you are enslaved.
Show up at STPUD’s rate increase hearing May 10, 5PM. It is time to put a lid on
costs, including salaries.