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Placer County supes contemplate pay raise


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By Richard Chang, Sacramento Bee

Placer County supervisors are weighing whether to ask voters for a raise after a county panel suggested pay hikes are long overdue in the fast-growing region.

Placer supervisors have made $30,000 a year ever since voters passed a ballot initiative in 1992 to cap salaries. Unlike their counterparts in other counties, Placer supervisors don’t receive any retirement or health benefits. And they don’t receive any other perks like a vehicle allowance or a discretionary fund.

As Placer County’s population has nearly doubled to 361,682 residents in the last two decades, supervisor compensation remained unchanged. Today, Placer’s salaries are the lowest in the four-county region that also includes Sacramento, Yolo and El Dorado.

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  1. Dogula says - Posted: March 24, 2014

    If they don’t like the pay, they shouldn’t run for the office.
    VERY simple.

  2. Steve says - Posted: March 24, 2014

    Not many years ago, Supervisors Upton & Solaro and others pushed through a huge raise for El Dorado County supervisors, arguing it would attract better candidates for the job.

    That phony argument has yet to bear fruit.