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City Budget Crisis: Firefighters Compensation by Paul J. Farmer, Chamber CEO This is the fourth article in the “City Budget Crisis” series where we focus on the City of Salinas’s major challenge with an ongoing budget deficit. The first three articles are available on the Chamber’s website at www.SalinasChamber.com Those articles covered the following topics: 1. The ever-increasing cost of the City’s employee benefits and pensions 2. Overtime costs, focusing on the Police and Fire Departments (which together average $5M per year) 3. The Fire Department’s special deal and “binding arbitration”
First, the source of our information – much of it comes from the City of Salinas itself. Financial figures come from the City’s Finance Department. For the third article in this series, the 64-page Memo of Understanding (ie, the employment agreement) between the City and the Firefighters union was drawn upon. For the current article, information on the compensation of any California public employee is available through a website called Transparent California. It is a free searchable database that anyone with Internet access can use (www.TransparentCalifornia.com).
The present article aims to resist editorializing and will simply publish publicly-available information on the compensation of employees in the Fire Department of the City of Salinas. Before we get to that, the Chamber would like to clarify several points. Employee Name
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Cortez, Hector Manuel Loomis, Brett D Flynn, Robert A Shoemaker, Herbert Eugene Rodriguez, Edmond Anthony Myhre, Scott James Klemek, Samuel Peter II VanderVeen, Shane Eliot Criste, Steven Michael Emery, Keith P Lauderdale, Edward Maitland Cheney, Matthew APRIL 2018 Lesch, Cary Ray Evarts, Matthew Hawkins Rodriguez, Frankie
Classification
Next, we aim to be fair. Before publication, we have shared information and articles with the Firefighters union (which is a member of the
Regular Pay
Overtime Pay
Fire Captain 108,912 174,197 Deputy Fire Chief 161,362 37,442 Firefighter 85,422 166,194 Battalion Chief 108,164 48,280 Fire Chief 175,917 2,952 Battalion Chief 141,922 31,262 BC/Fire Marshal 142,798 35,805 Fire Captain 109,048 78,948 Firefighter 85,870 120,592 Fire Captain 105,720 62,814 Fire Captain 101,353 61,990 Fire Captain 96,492 81,997 Fire Captainwww.SalinasChamber.com 106,434 80,046 Battalion Chief EMS/Trng 133,421 11,220 Fire Captain 105,085 68,377
Other Pay
32,197 73,883 28,919 99,905 79,522 61,936 40,512 31,277 25,504 36,975 40,738 28,954 25,368 34,901 5,897
Total Pay
315,306 272,687 280,535 256,349 258,391 235,120 219,115 219,273 231,966 205,509 204,081 207,443 211,848 179,542 179,359
Retirement + Health/ Dental/Vision
Total Compensation Costs
53,762 369,068 64,266 336,953 51,280 331,815 60,977 317,326 50,519 308,910 60,977 296,097 56,058 275,173 45,300 264,573 32,242 264,208 55,501 261,010 56,740 260,821 CRISIS - Continued on page 4 52,782 260,225 1 47,350 259,198 56,234 235,776 50,900 230,259