Base salary $25,000. Overtime $931,000

Welcome to California. Los Angeles Public Water and Power.


Gov. Gavin Newsom calls it a dimmer switch, but for many Golden State businesses, it's lights out. Again. And it's a good gig if you can get it — a security guard at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power pulled in a cool $931,000 in overtime over the past three years. His base salary is around $25,000.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...ose-birds-dimmer-glee-monday-news/5429200002/

 

Apparently we are doing "it" all wrong.

 

Same thing in Illinois, I can't remember where I saw the article, but it made me sick. The pay and the retirement benefits are astronomical. I guess I'm jealous I wasn't smart enough to look that up after college and get a job in their public sector. I'd be retired now and moved out of that state to an at least somewhat better managed state.

 

This is not possible unless there is blatant falsification of hours worked. 25K annually is about 12 bucks an hour. Give him double time for another 8 and assume he worked 365 days straight. Doesn't add up.

 

What kind of math bullshit is this?


So the claim is he worked 40 hours a week PLUS 70 hours a week for 110 hours a week.

So he worked 7 days for 15 hours a day?

Doubt it.

If he worked 110 hours a week * 52 weeks and got paid $25 an hour for all of those hours total (assuming a much higher salary), his annual earnings would still be $143,000 at most....

People accept this without doing simple math or asking for more facts....

 

Maybe the $931,000 includes his benefits.

 

Don't assume that just one person is claiming hours under the same payroll account.

 

Los Angeles Police Department alone had $4,000,000 in overtime for the recent riots. They gave the cops paid time off to compensate them for the overtime. LA Mayor Eric Garcetti cutting $150 million from the police budget. Next time the Antifa and BLM thugs riot, burn and steal, there would be even less police facing them.

 

Sorry. Not possible. The numbers are wrong. Maybe you can figure it out if you can learn to use Google.

 

That's the only way this could happen on a 12 dollar an hour job. It is possible for one person to be claiming a 16 hour day, 365 days a year. I have seen that abuse many times over the years in the steel mills, railroads, and other industries. Work 8 or 10, sleep the rest.