Getting a Clue
Marc Grisham was hired in 2004 to be the city manager in Pittsburg, California, a working class city of 65,000 people. His contract is below. Grisham’s starting salary was $169,000 a year. His contract was amended five times in the years since. By 2008, he was making a base salary of $231,938 a year (see [...]
let’s just eat the whole thing (II)
Between 2000 and 2010, the cost of living went up by about 30%.
In the same period in the city where I live — West Hollywood, California — government salaries went up by rates that, in many instances, come remarkably close to 100%. (The city manager’s salary growth actually topped 100%, as I’ve already noted.)
The proof [...]
congratulations, we’re showing you the door
Rosemead, part two. Tax money to burn.
I first heard about Oliver Chi from the indescribably sharp Claremont Insider, a local blog that does better journalism than the several newspapers in town. More than a year ago, the Insider covered much of the ground I’m about to revisit. But with documents in hand, it’s worth another look — [...]
and a pony, too
Below, overwhelming the page as a jpeg that I can’t seem to wrestle under control because I’m an idiot, the standard package of benefits for the city manager and assistant city manager at the City of Rosemead, a not terribly large contract city in suburban Los Angeles. No employee contribution to CalPERS retirement. Eight hundred [...]
government pay that doesn’t make you feel like taking a shower after you examine it
Government documents are sort of standardized, and sort of not. They have a flavor, a color that resides in the differences. You can read them and get a feeling for the people who created them.
Below, the contract between the City of Newport Beach and City Manager David Kiff. Compare this one to the amazing contract [...]
words that don’t work: how to calculate local government pay, part two
Following up on yesterday’s post regarding city manager pay, let’s keep looking at retired Indio City Manager Glenn Southard’s $300,000 salary. Yesterday, going through Southard’s contract, I showed how his real potential earnings were closer to $400,000+ a year. But his contract still doesn’t tell the whole story.
Here’s a report from the local newspaper, the [...]
words that don’t work: how to figure out how much money a local government manager makes
In the wake of the scandal over Bell City Manager Robert Rizzo’s $800,000 in annual pay, journalists are reporting that, hey, don’t worry, other city managers make more reasonable salaries. And it’s a fair bet that people are calling their own local governments to ask about their city manager’s salary, while some cities work to [...]