Local Salaries Listed

[marksjax]

This is from the Times Union:
http://news.jacksonville.com/govtsalaries/
Big winner here is John Delaney by far.
Guess we know why the state wants to raise tuition! And don't forget he is a triple dipper for retirement: State Attorney Prosecutor, Mayor and now UNF President. Not bad, not bad at all for a 'public servant'.

[duvaldude08]

Quite a few JEA employees, but yet they wanted pay raises???!? Get Real JEA.

[Garden guy]

JEA and its employees have been milking this city since its inception..

[Ajax]

This is from the Times Union:
http://news.jacksonville.com/govtsalaries/
Big winner here is John Delaney by far.
Guess we know why the state wants to raise tuition! And don't forget he is a triple dipper for retirement: State Attorney Prosecutor, Mayor and now UNF President. Not bad, not bad at all for a 'public servant'.

Wow.  I didn't realize university presidents made that much.  But it looks like that's the going rate.  I'll say this for Delaney: they are doing great things over there at UNF. 

http://www.eaglenews.org/comparison-florida-public-university-presidential-salaries-1.2633248

[Jason]

Why would Rick Scott's salary be listed as "$0.06"?

[RiversideHusker]

Wow, JEA looks like the place to work, with median salary of around $68,000. I'm shocked at how much overtime some of those JEA employees are racking up; I'm especially curious to know what Paul Patterson & Maria Benavides do that allows them to each rack up nearly $60,000 in overtime!

[tufsu1]

because he pretty much refused to take a salary...but as a state emplyee, he needed to be in the system

[finehoe]

because he pretty much refused to take a salary...but as a state emplyee, he needed to be in the system

I guess he bilked enough out of Medicare with his fraudulent billing that he doesn't need a salary.

[duvaldude08]

JEA and its employees have been milking this city since its inception..

Well not this time around. Seeing this makes me even more happy that the council shot down their pay raises. This is ridiculous

[bill]

Wow, JEA looks like the place to work, with median salary of around $68,000. I'm shocked at how much overtime some of those JEA employees are racking up; I'm especially curious to know what Paul Patterson & Maria Benavides do that allows them to each rack up nearly $60,000 in overtime!

Yeah when you see the numbers the unions forge themselves a pretty sweet deal. That is why they destroy their industries.

[wsansewjs]

John Delaney deserves that half million dollar salary because he is doing a damn good job carrying the vision and making it reality for University of North Florida.

-Josh

[tufsu1]

^ maybe so, but that's the same logic every corporate exec uses....along with comparing their salaries with their contemporaries

truth be told, salaries for university presidents in Florida has more than doubled over the last 10+ years....back in the late 1990's, there was outrage when UF and FSU presidents got $300,000 salaries....now both are well over $600,000.

and students wonder why tuition increases 10+ percent every year

[mtraininjax]

Check out the JTA salaries, see how much Blalock makes for his mistakes! Incredible.

[David]

Wow, JEA looks like the place to work, with median salary of around $68,000. I'm shocked at how much overtime some of those JEA employees are racking up; I'm especially curious to know what Paul Patterson & Maria Benavides do that allows them to each rack up nearly $60,000 in overtime!

It was pretty sweet when I worked there. You had quarterly safety bonuses, annual bonuses & cost of living raises. My old boss made 25k+ in OT according these numbers.

They did cut a lot of payroll (I was one of them) so that was their way of justifying the raises. If you get on as a civil service employee, you've got it made. A lot of JEA employees were working under the "JEA Temp" label, so they didn't get all the sweet pension and medical benefits civil service gets.

It's nice to be back in a private company again. I'm not defending JEA by any means, but it's weird having your salary information published for all to see. Plus when everything's public like that it takes office politics to a whole new level.

PASS!

[finehoe]

Check out the JTA salaries, see how much Blalock makes for his mistakes! Incredible.

This is par for the course in the corporate world, so why not JTA?

Charles Prince resigned as CEO of Citgroup after announcing the bank would need an additional $8 billion to $11 billion in write-downs related to sub-prime mortgages gone bad. Prince left with a princely $30 million in pension, stock awards, and stock options, along with an office, car, and a driver for five years.

Stanley O’Neal’s five-year tenure as CEO of Merrill Lynch ended about the same time, when it became clear Merrill would have to take tens of billions in write-downs on bad sub-prime mortgages and be bought up at a fire-sale price by Bank of America. O’Neal got a payout worth $162 million.

Philip Purcell, who left Morgan Stanley in 2005 after a shareholder revolt against him, took away $43.9 million plus $250,000 a year for life.

Pay-for-failure extends far beyond Wall Street. In a study released last week, GMI, a well-regarded research firm that monitors executive pay, analyzed the largest severance packages received by ex-CEOs since 2000.

On the list: Thomas E. Freston, who lasted just nine months as CEO of Viacom before being terminated, and left with a walk-away package of $101 million.

Also William D. McGuire, who in 2006 was forced to resign as CEO of UnitedHealth over a stock-options scandal, and for his troubles got pay package worth $286 million.

And Hank A. McKinnell, Jr.’s, whose five-year tenure as CEO of Pfizer was marked by a $140 billion drop in Pfizer’s stock market value. Notwithstanding, McKinnell walked away with a payout of nearly $200 million, free lifetime medical coverage, and an annual pension of $6.5 million. (At Pfizer’s 2006 annual meeting a plane flew overhead towing a banner reading “Give it back, Hank!”)

Not to forget Douglas Ivester of Coca Cola, who stepped down as CEO in 2000 after a period of stagnant growth and declining earnings, with an exit package worth $120 million.

If anything, pay for failure is on the rise. Last September, Leo Apotheker was shown the door at Hewlett-Packard, with an exit package worth $13 million. Stephen Hilbert left Conseco with an estimated $72 million even though value of Conseco’s stock during his tenure sank from $57 to $5 a share on its way to bankruptcy.