Local Salaries Listed

[Doctor_K]

^ 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

I don't disagree, in principle... But there's fuzzy math afoot here.

Consider one person making $600K, but then there's quite literally tens of thousands of students enrolled in the school.  One person's salary alone does NOT affect tuition like that.

Brand new, luxury-style, on-campus apartments, new sports complexes/stadia, new educational buildings, and the outrageous construction costs for all of those?  Now *that* affects tuition.

[Doctor_K]

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

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[cityimrov]

I don't this.  Is this city so poor that a $60k salary is OVERPAID?  A $600k executive salary is considered rich? 

These numbers are pathetic for a major US city and watching everyone fight over them is even more pathetic.  We should not be fighting over this but we should be outraged about why our salaries are so low!

$60k should be our average salary!  Why isn't it? 

[exnewsman]

^ 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

Football coaches are making millions and nobody complains about that. The University presidents are responsible for the entire student body - education and building them, yet they make a percentage of what the coaches make.

[David]

60k is above average for Jax. There's several different stats, but the median household income is around 48k going off the 2010 census.  It's only because it's public info and it's from a company that keeps jacking up our rates every so often and it's a company we dont respect. I haven't heard too many people complain that JSO is making too much. (before the paycuts)

[duvaldude08]

I don't this.  Is this city so poor that a $60k salary is OVERPAID?  A $600k executive salary is considered rich? 

These numbers are pathetic for a major US city and watching everyone fight over them is even more pathetic.  We should not be fighting over this but we should be outraged about why our salaries are so low!

$60k should be our average salary!  Why isn't it?

Well unfortunately we dont have it like that. im sure every major city in the country wished there average pay was $60,000 a year. The problem I have with the salaries is that why we are in a recession and the rest of the city is struggling, you have workers, such as JEA, sitting on chesses begging for pay raises. Thats not right no matter what angle you look at it from.

[finehoe]

I don't this.  Is this city so poor that a $60k salary is OVERPAID?  A $600k executive salary is considered rich? 

These numbers are pathetic for a major US city and watching everyone fight over them is even more pathetic.  We should not be fighting over this but we should be outraged about why our salaries are so low!

$60k should be our average salary!  Why isn't it?

See mine and Non-Redneck Westsider's discussion on what constitutes a high-quality job over at http://www.metrojacksonville.com/forum/index.php/topic,14294.msg264180.html#msg264180
for the answer to this.

[mtraininjax]

The only person I heard as a cheerleader for the JEA raises was their CEO, were there others I am forgetting? Dickenson is retiring soon anyway, so what does he have to lose? Oh yeah, forgot that the fire fighters have to take a pay cut to EQUAL the cut taken by the police.