Calif. Senate staff receive raises despite budget crisis
By Torey Van Oot, Sacramento Bee
California’s chronic budget problems haven’t stopped the state Senate from giving some of its own staff members a bump in pay, handing out raises averaging 7 percent to dozens of workers in recent months.
The Senate increased the pay of at least 169 employees – nearly one-fifth of the staff – during a three-month period ending October 31.
The raises affected staff members serving in many levels of Senate operations, including Capitol security technicians, printing specialists and district workers.
The changes also boosted the paychecks of some of the Capitol’s highest-paid aides. Nine chiefs of staff, including the top aide to Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, saw their six-figure salaries rise by as much as 10 percent.
At least 10 additional staff members are making more money because of changes to their job classifications, with promotions leading to salary increases of more than 25 percent in some cases.
Politics as usual.
They pretend to be working for the citizens, but they’re only working for themselves. Civil Servants indeed.
This article was posted early yesterday – and there is ONE COMMENT!
That says it all!
I’d love to see how the raises were apportioned between dems and repubs.
And at the same time how much were these
people making before and after the raises.
Hard to make judgements without all or most of the facts.
It is outrageous! I don’t know anyone who has received a 7% raise in YEARS, and yet our “broke” state leaders are doing this? They are worse than the banks. They obviously don’t get the message being sent by protesters about the class inequities. Shame….
earl zitts – that is lame, how could you not have the facts?
look them up if you want, better yet PAY ATTENTION
Most importantly you likely live in CA – do you look around and see what the liberal government has done to it?
What facts don’t you have?
Ignorance is a “Cali” state of mind and not an admirable one. Very prevalent and very core to it’s demise.
Pathetic blowhard know-it-alls always have to blame someone else for their stupid/greedy financial decisions that bankrupt them and force them out of town.
Note to California citizens,
It’s best to get out of California – leave Smedley and his fellow government employees behind. They are trying to rob you blind.
Noticed several peoples posts just vanished
Censoring – how Hitleresk
Ragtown paper for a rag town.
How much babble is enough? I think we all agree that our government is out of control. There is no liberal vs. conservative, no democrat vs. republican. There is only citizen vs. government vs. corporatism now. It is disgusting.
OMG they are so important, just like the the old Bobbie Lundgren job !! Confidential $$$$$ to do what ??
You may have noticed SS has been frozen because the gov says there is no infaltion Next will be the teachers and adminstrators We are in a war it is them against us and we are losing