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tsai3904
12-22-2013, 01:15 PM
It's good to be the mayor, but it pays to be a firefighter.

A fire official again topped the list of San Francisco's highest paid city employees last year, and the department had six of the city's top 10 spots for total pay, according to figures for fiscal 2012-13 from the city's Department of Human Resources.

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At the top of the list was Battalion Chief James Vannucchi, who retired during the fiscal year, which ended June 30, and took home a whopping $393,430.

Vannucchi more than doubled his base salary of about $158,000 by pulling in almost $52,000 in overtime and more than $183,000 in other compensation, including payouts for accrued vacation, unused sick time and other earned time off, the figures show.

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Fire Lt. Gary Altenberg of Station 39 on Portola Avenue had the most overtime of any city employee, pulling in $191,172 in overtime, well above his salary of $131,101. With other pay perks, his total compensation was $343,730. Not far behind was firefighter and paramedic Frederick Binkley, who racked up $179,235 in overtime on top of a base pay of $129,141, the figures show. Binkley's total pay last year was $326,140.

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As for the $100,000 club, well, let's just say it ain't what it used to be.

No less than 10,281 of the city's roughly 28,000 employees earned at least $100,000 in total compensation in the last fiscal year. Eighty-four pulled in at least $250,000 each in total compensation, the figures show.

More:
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-Fire-Dept-dominates-list-of-highest-paid-5085237.php
Brian4Liberty
12-22-2013, 01:32 PM
At the top of the list was Battalion Chief James Vannucchi, who retired during the fiscal year, which ended June 30, and took home a whopping $393,430.


I believe that means he will receive that amount every year in retirement.
aGameOfThrones
12-22-2013, 01:54 PM
No less than 10,281 of the city's roughly 28,000 employees earned at least $100,000 in total compensation in the last fiscal year. Eighty-four pulled in at least $250,000 each in total compensation, the figures show.



Don't you love it when public employees go on strike for more benefits?
aGameOfThrones
12-22-2013, 01:54 PM
No less than 10,281 of the city's roughly 28,000 employees earned at least $100,000 in total compensation in the last fiscal year. Eighty-four pulled in at least $250,000 each in total compensation, the figures show.



Don't you love it when public employees go on strike for more benefits?
Philhelm
12-22-2013, 02:35 PM
But heroes don't do it for the money.
Anti Federalist
12-22-2013, 02:55 PM
Coincidence?


'A Public Safety Disaster': ObamaCare Could Force THOUSANDS of Volunteer Fire Departments to Close

http://nation.foxnews.com/2013/12/10/public-safety-disaster-obamacare-could-force-thousands-volunteer-fire-departments-close

PUBLISHED: 15:58 EST, 9 December 2013 | UPDATED: 23:11 EST

Volunteer fire departments all across the U.S. could find themselves out of money and unable to operate unless Congress or the Obama Administration exempts them from the Affordable Care Act.

'I thought the kinks were worked out of Obamacare at the first of the month, Central Florida volunteer firefighter Carl Fabrizi told Sunshine State News.

'Man, oh, man, this could potentially destroy some real good companies in Florida.'

The U.S. Department of Labor takes the term 'volunteer' literally, but the IRS says volunteer firefighters are technically employees if they're on the job more than 30 hours per week, making them subject to Obamacare's employee-mandate rules.

Since the Obamacare law doesn't specifically carve out an exemption for them, fire departments where 50 or more people work – either as volunteers or officially as employees – are expected to provide health insurance for every one of them.

In towns with more than one volunteer fire department, all the staffers will likely be lumped together for tax purposes, pushing many municipalities above the 50-worker threshold.

That could cost departments of life-savers hundreds of thousands of dollars each year. Those that dump their volunteers into the federal insurance exchanges would still have to pay an annual $2,000 fine for each 'employee' after the first 30.

'I can tell you right now we can’t afford it,' East Derry, Pennsylvania Fire Company Chief Edward Mann told the Patriot-News. 'While a volunteer fire department may not have a payroll, the rest of it isn’t free. The only part that is free is the labor.'

Mann's concerns are likely to get at least some attention in Washington: He's also the state fire commissioner in Pennsylvania, where 97 per cent of fire departments are fully or mostly staffed by volunteers. That's the highest percentage in the U.S.
aGameOfThrones
12-22-2013, 03:53 PM
Affordable We Care Act.
idiom
12-22-2013, 10:27 PM
Its not like the position even has any responsibility. The Chief has a fixed budget and a fixed set of requirements. Its not hard. He doesn't have to come up with risky strategies and execute them to keep the whole thing still there next year.