Highest Paid City Officials

[Metro Jacksonville]

Highest Paid City Officials



In this piece we take a look at some of the top wage earners employed by the City of Jacksonville.

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http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2013-aug-highest-paid-city-officials

[aubureck]

Is it just me or should the "highest" paid position in the city be the mayor (Im not saying he needs to give himself a giant raise).  All of his support staff should be paid below him.

[CityLife]

^Ideally no, because then you may have people running for the money, not the interest of serving the public.

BTW, JEA has 4 employees that would be on this list, 13 making over $150k, and roughly 225 that made over $100k last year (including OT and bonuses).

[TheCat]

@citylife, the list includes only employees paid directly by the city.

So, JEA, JTA, JaxPort, School Board...etc are not included in the list.

[TheCat]

The mayor is the 19th highest paid employee.

[CityLife]

@citylife, the list includes only employees paid directly by the city.

So, JEA, JTA, JaxPort, School Board...etc are not included in the list.

Yea I know, was just pointing it out. That is where some of the shocking public salaries come from.

[CityLife]

Also worth pointing out that there are 17 attorney's at OGC that make over $100k and I believe there are a total of >30 attorney's at OGC. Attorney's play a bigger role in government than people realize and can be very valuable, but it does seem like we are heavily staffed there, especially in relation to a lot of other city departments.

[coredumped]

No one should make in the 6 figures. Especially when you include all the holidays they get.

[John P]

Alan Verlander makes a lot of money for that kind of job.

[MEGATRON]

No one should make in the 6 figures. Especially when you include all the holidays they get.

Have fun trying to hire competent folks away from private companies with this policy.

[CityLife]

No one should make in the 6 figures. Especially when you include all the holidays they get.

Have fun trying to hire competent folks away from private companies with this policy.

...Or keeping anyone with any talent/knowledge away from the private sector.

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

No one should make in the 6 figures. Especially when you include all the holidays they get.

Have fun trying to hire competent folks away from private companies with this policy.

...Or keeping anyone with any talent/knowledge away from the private sector.

Funny?!?  I don't think I remember anyone on this board calling most (if any) of the people mentioned talented or knowledgeable. 

I guess we're not spending enough.

[CityLife]

No one should make in the 6 figures. Especially when you include all the holidays they get.

Have fun trying to hire competent folks away from private companies with this policy.

...Or keeping anyone with any talent/knowledge away from the private sector.

Funny?!?  I don't think I remember anyone on this board calling most (if any) of the people mentioned talented or knowledgeable. 

I guess we're not spending enough.

This board has done job evaluations for every COJ employee that makes over $100k? News to me....

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

No one should make in the 6 figures. Especially when you include all the holidays they get.

Have fun trying to hire competent folks away from private companies with this policy.

...Or keeping anyone with any talent/knowledge away from the private sector.

Funny?!?  I don't think I remember anyone on this board calling most (if any) of the people mentioned talented or knowledgeable. 

I guess we're not spending enough.

This board has done job evaluations for every COJ employee that makes over $100k? News to me....

We evaluate the jobs they do almost daily, don't we? 

[CityLife]

^LOL. Who is we? The general public who occasionally read a news article or see them make a presentation? There are probably >100 COJ employees making north of $100k. Do you know all these people? Do you know how stressful their job is? What their job opportunities are like outside of COJ? What their day to day job is like? I may occasionally offer a criticscm about Laquidara or some other COJ employee on here, but without having a birds eye view, I'm sure as heck not going to get into a debate about what their fair market value is. Typically a position is given a salary relative to the fair market value of similar positions in comparable municiplaities. That's not something an anonymous poster on an internet message board has a clue about...

That said, I absolutely think there should be trimming of the fat within COJ, but having worked in government, the fat is usually in the lower and mid levels, while those in management carry the load and pressure.