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Of $125K Salaries in Seattle, Fire: 32; Police: 26; Library: 2
May 6, 2009
Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels "is sparing high-salary administrators and departments with strong unions," points out Kent Kammerer in Crosscut, suggesting that the library gets the short end of the stick.
"The Fire Department has 32 executive positions or chiefs, who make over $125,000 per year, none of whose job requires they enter flaming buildings," Kammerer writes. "The Police Department has 26 chiefs or executives who make $125,000 per year or more, none of whom work the streets."
By contrast, he notes "There are only two library administrators with pay above $125,000 and they supervise 345 people as against the Fire Department administrators who supervise only 65 people on average. Library management is more efficient it seems."
In fact, Kammerer adds, the library's "690 employees represent proportionally the highest educational level among City employees, yet library employees, as a group, are the lowest paid public employees in the system.
Posted by Norman Oder on May 6, 2009 | Comments (1)
