Transparent California (Alameda: home, salary, eat)

[sunshine7793]

Here's a website where you can find the salaries and pensions of government employees. Maybe someone can help to figure out how it works. I went to the Alameda County pensions and found the first person listed has a pension of over $500,000. What does that mean? Surely they don't mean that this public employee gets $500,000/yr for retirement?

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[MrTudo]

The snake that eats itself

[Ceece]

Ohh nice.

[bigdumbgod]

Shall we conjecture that you are supportive of Mayor Reed's push to get pension reform on the CA ballot?

[TVC15]

And the Big Wheel keeps on spinning

[Bulldogdad]

Heard about this on Armstrong and Getty. I thought someone posted a link similar to this last year or a few years ago.

[transparencyca]

Originally Posted by sunshine7793

Here's a website where you can find the salaries and pensions of government employees. Maybe someone can help to figure out how it works. I went to the Alameda County pensions and found the first person listed has a pension of over $500,000. What does that mean? Surely they don't mean that this public employee gets $500,000/yr for retirement?

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The pension data is base pension amount received for the relevant year. We mostly only have 2012 up, so the Alameda County person you are referring to does, in fact, receive that amount on an annual basis. All numbers are annual amounts that were paid out in 2012.

I spoke to the web guy about making this more clear on the site, as many have asked this same question.

[transparencyca]

Originally Posted by transparencyca

The pension data is base pension amount received for the relevant year. We mostly only have 2012 up, so the Alameda County person you are referring to does, in fact, receive that amount on an annual basis. All numbers are annual amounts that were paid out in 2012.

I spoke to the web guy about making this more clear on the site, as many have asked this same question.

Google "pension spiking" to see why this type of pension is possible. This is unique to California because of their pension formula rules.

[sunshine7793]

I count 570 people getting over $200,000 per year. And thousands (tens of thousands?) getting over $100,000 per year. Sweet deal. A salary of $200K equals $100 per hour. At $100K per year that's $50/hr. Imagine sitting on the park bench feeding the birds while you make $50-$100 per hour for the rest of your life.

I say this is the result of the one-party government that has run amok in CA.

[cre8lite]

are these figures gross pay? or take home pay?