Placer County supes contemplate pay raise
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.