Calif. lawmakers, governor to get raise
By Jeremy B. White, Sacramento Bee
Gov. Jerry Brown, California lawmakers and other elected officials will be getting a 2 percent raise this year.
Pointing to California’s firmer fiscal footing, a panel that sets salaries for elected officials voted 4-1 Friday to enact a pay boost. Starting Dec. 1, the raise will add $1,906 to lawmakers’ annual $95,291 salary, giving them a yearly pay of $97,197. The raise for Brown will be $3,480, taking him to $177,467 a year.
Years of yawning budget deficits have given way to a surplus, allowing California to pass an on-time budget this year with minimal friction. Those sunnier circumstances framed the debate among members of the California Citizens Compensation Commission and guided Friday’s decision to hike pay for the second consecutive year.
“It would be hard to argue, I believe, that the state is not better off financially today than it was a few years ago,” said commissioner Scott Somers, a corporate executive and compensation expert. “If they get tarred when times are tough,” he added in reference to elected officials, “they ought to at least get some credit when things are improving.”
Anybody here seen things improve for anybody who DOESN’T work for government? Anybody?
The “projected” increase in revenue is just that. Projected. It ain’t a fact yet. The state is spending more money than it brings in, as usual, and they’re giving themselves raises they have not earned.
Who here has gotten a raise? Anybody? As I said, it doesn’t count if you work for government or a government agency.
I admit that I didn’t even bother reading the article, but the title alone really makes me sick and pretty p*ssed off.
Dogula I see a whole lot of people who are making a ton of money in the trades and in real estate in general. Quality homes are getting multiple offers. Real estate tends to fuel other industries and sure enough those industries are doing well.
Government on the other hand is still in the doldrums. People are looking at getting back to 40 hour weeks and getting the first cost of living increases they have had in years.
The real economy will truly be hitting on all cylinders when both the private and public sectors are doing well.
Most of the people who I know in the trades are working; but they’ve reduced their prices to get the jobs. And those who haven’t are working on GOVERNMENT subsidized projects!
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101781301
Anybody else notice how close our ‘top’ city officials are to the governor’s salary?
Ah, the CNBC economic report. Fed directly to them by the White House.
Hey, only $177 grand for the governor..
Interesting – the fellow running barton hospital pulls down $600,000 for a base salary.
Even the city manager is making that kind a dough …
Is the Governor getting ripped off or is it the other way around, the tax payer …
At least the gov does a good job.
but none of them have to make a profit or make payroll or put their homes up as collateral to keep a business afloat.
Dog do you have any other data or analysis to bring to the table?
BlueWaters, I’ve always noticed it. And we should always remember it when there’s any City-related type of budget discussion.
Moral if what you mean by Tades is construction, that is the one field that has not recovered as much as the rest of the job market on a national level. This year a lot of our local tradesmen are doing better because of things like the Tahole and when the work that has not started at the Horizon but will also help the tradesman. during the recession alot of tradesman left the hill. The local RE market is still not in great shape and it will be awhile before it does improve.
In the effort to get money out of politics a couple Tahoe locals got to watch as AJR1 passed senate floor with a 23-11 vote. The applause from the gallery was worth the trip alone. We are second state to pas this.
With passing of AJR1 California became the second state to ask for a convention on constitution to get our democracy back. Corporations are not people. We need 32 more states to become super majority, this is beyond party lines.
However, the vote here in California was along party lines. I guess the GOP gets the memo out a little more efficiently than other parties.
I am looking forward to hitting the phone drudgery to inform the residents of Red colored states of the inevitable vote on same issue.Yes, i will invade invade their politics without money, only a clear voice.
What this means is this a way to get corporations, private interests out of politics with their large donations that drown our small individual voices.
I have never been politically involved before , only opinionated.
But the moment when this bill passed, the gallery full of wolf pac volunteers and 99 march for democracy applauded i believed a small but dedicated group of people can change the world.
“Order, Order”, they called up from the floor, we applauded a little more, we had won and we were heard. Wolf pac of the young turks organized this and informed me of the process. To them i thank for this truly democratic experience.