How do SFUSD's top earners compare to SF's?
A friend who works in San Francisco city government tells me that all through City Hall, staffers view SFUSD headquarters with disdain as a pit of waste, corruption and overpaid employees. But my informant, who is also quite familiar with SFUSD, says that City Hall is far worse.
I don't have the investigative resources to look into this on my own. The Chronicle has just posted an eye-opening guide to the city of San Francisco's top-paid employees, though. I would really like to urge the Chron to do a similar one on SFUSD staff, whatever it reveals by comparison. (The school district is not run by the city, for the uninitiated — it's technically a state agency.)
The SF Weekly blog actually has the best summary of this I've found so far:
The city of San Francisco pays over 8,000 employees over $100,000 and the Chronicle has a helpful database set up to let you figure out who they are. At the very top, with $350,324 is Christian Kitchin, a Special Nurse with the DPH-Community Health Network. Kitchin is a county jail nurse and his base pay is $117,262. He made $216,277 in overtime and $16,785 in "other pay", which is classified as "compensation for special working conditions or one-time pay-outs of unused vacation and sick leave to employees leaving the city." Next in line is Nathaniel Ford, General Manager of Muni, who makes $325,452 (no overtime, but he scored $27,453 in "other pay".) Third place goes to David Kushner, Department Director for Investments of the SF Employee's Retirement System, who makes an even $289,479, no overtime, no other pay. Three SFPD employees occupy the seventh, eighth and ninth slots, all of whom nearly double their $100,000+ salaries with overtime pay. Supervisor Aaron Peskin will introduce an ordinance on Tuesday asking that the city eliminate staff positions whose base salaries are $150,000 or higher- but that only takes into account salaries, not overtime and fringe benefits. Our city's deficit stands at $338 million. According to an article in yesterday's Chronicle, the city paid more than 1,317 employees more than $150,000 in overtime in 2007. -Andy Wright
And nice work by the Chronicle — maybe this bodes well for the future of newspapers after all. It would be nice to have this information this accessible at all times. And what does this Christian Kitchin DO in his job, exactly?
Oh, also, for those who aren't versed in all this: the SFUSD Board of Education commissioners are essentially volunteers. They get a $500 monthly stipend.
I don't have the investigative resources to look into this on my own. The Chronicle has just posted an eye-opening guide to the city of San Francisco's top-paid employees, though. I would really like to urge the Chron to do a similar one on SFUSD staff, whatever it reveals by comparison. (The school district is not run by the city, for the uninitiated — it's technically a state agency.)
The SF Weekly blog actually has the best summary of this I've found so far:
8,000 SF employees take home over $100,000 — and then some
Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 08:19:01 AM
The city of San Francisco pays over 8,000 employees over $100,000 and the Chronicle has a helpful database set up to let you figure out who they are. At the very top, with $350,324 is Christian Kitchin, a Special Nurse with the DPH-Community Health Network. Kitchin is a county jail nurse and his base pay is $117,262. He made $216,277 in overtime and $16,785 in "other pay", which is classified as "compensation for special working conditions or one-time pay-outs of unused vacation and sick leave to employees leaving the city." Next in line is Nathaniel Ford, General Manager of Muni, who makes $325,452 (no overtime, but he scored $27,453 in "other pay".) Third place goes to David Kushner, Department Director for Investments of the SF Employee's Retirement System, who makes an even $289,479, no overtime, no other pay. Three SFPD employees occupy the seventh, eighth and ninth slots, all of whom nearly double their $100,000+ salaries with overtime pay. Supervisor Aaron Peskin will introduce an ordinance on Tuesday asking that the city eliminate staff positions whose base salaries are $150,000 or higher- but that only takes into account salaries, not overtime and fringe benefits. Our city's deficit stands at $338 million. According to an article in yesterday's Chronicle, the city paid more than 1,317 employees more than $150,000 in overtime in 2007. -Andy Wright
And nice work by the Chronicle — maybe this bodes well for the future of newspapers after all. It would be nice to have this information this accessible at all times. And what does this Christian Kitchin DO in his job, exactly?
Oh, also, for those who aren't versed in all this: the SFUSD Board of Education commissioners are essentially volunteers. They get a $500 monthly stipend.
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