Chronicle Posts Salaries of Public Employees (Houston, Mercedes: crime, home, school)

[Mr. Football]

City & County leaders have to be feeling a bit squirmy today. The Houston Chronicle has posted the salaries and positions of each public employee.

Seems that cops are paid quite handsomely (a lot better than they let on).
Databases - Public employee salaries | chron.com - Houston Chronicle (http://www.chron.com/databases/publicemployeepay.html?appSession=511031939661042& RecordID=&PageID=2&PrevPageID=2&cpipage=1&CPISortT ype=asc&CPIorderBy=OVERTIME - broken link)

No wonder I've been seeing so many cops driving around in nice new Mercedes and BMW's. They've mastered milking the system with OT, especially the deputies. Page after page of deputies making $125K-$150K and yet they whine about being underpayed and undermanned and keep coming back asking the public for more and more money (with little/no improvement in crime rate).

[desertsun41]

All public employees whine. I love when they threaten to go into the private job sector if they dont get another raise. Then all of us peons are just looking at them with our toungues hanging on the asphalt.

Teachers are the worst and coppers are the 2nd worst whiners. The difference is teachers can not get overtime nor can they walk in on a drug bust and bring home a nice little brown bag full of cash to their family like cops can and do.

Oh and the benifits package? Public employees bennies are second to none. If they can survive their feather bedding jobs for 20 years they can retire young with FULL pension for the rest of their life.

How sweet it is....................................

[Hayato]

Wow. I bet you these people still use the time punchcard system.

[Beto]

They do.

[davidt1]

I am not surprised. I posted about cops making more than people with advanced degrees make a while back. For those of you who went to college, you might take comfort in the fact that more police departments require applicants to have college degrees these days.

[Mr. Football]

Name FLOYD E RAY
Title SUPV, CUSTODIAL
Agency HOUSTON ISD
Department FACILITIES MANAGER AREA 1
Base $114,025
Overtime $60,543
Car Allowance $0
Incentive $0
Total Pay $114,025

[Hayato]

Originally Posted by Mr. Football

Name FLOYD E RAY
Title SUPV, CUSTODIAL
Agency HOUSTON ISD
Department FACILITIES MANAGER AREA 1
Base $114,025
Overtime $60,543
Car Allowance $0
Incentive $0
Total Pay $114,025

This caught my eye too. I though custodial is the evidence warehouse at best. Thats like a glorified security guard.

[Mom2Feebs]

You guys, come on. Speculation at best. You don't know what that guy is supervising or even what his job entails or how many people he's over. I saw plenty of police officers who were making in the 40's. My brother is an HPD officer, a sergeant on the west side, and he's been an officer since the 80's--he deserves his $80K a year. Most of them do.

I've never seen a cop driving a Mercedes. Not to say it hasn't happened...but I've never seen it.

[Topaz]

I clearly spent too much time in school and not enough hours doing overtime!

[Bike4Life]

I saw that too and it comes with mixed feeling if this was a good idea or not. Just because you can request the public information records for legitimate reasons, it shouldn't mean that you can post it all over the Internet.

This probably upsets a lot of people with too much information that most people don't want or need to know. It's a real work moral buster; however, it could put some pressure to raise middle class compensation and shrink the top to bottom salary gap which doesn't seem likely to happen anytime soon. It would have been better if they limited to posting to something like the top 50 salaries but not all 80,000+ employees.

I too, agree Topaz. We've been duped! Actually, twice for me since I paid $900 for a days worth of plumbers digging just to fix a water pipe, too. I would have been a millionaire in 5 years if I had that job.