California State Employee Salaries Are Mind Boggling!!

**RicheemxX** · May 25th, 2012, 01:54 PM

I don't know why this surprises me as much as it does but wow some of the salaries out there are just totally bass ackwards

Emergency Services Coordinator
Salary: $3,748.00 - $5,453.00

Vs

Administrative Support II (Executive Assistant to the Vice President of Student Affairs) Glorified secretary
SALARY RANGE: $4,130.00 - $8,410.00

Here is a position that handles duties essential to saving lives, maintaining the states preparedness for disaster and the top salary is almost equal to the starting salary of what essentially is a personal assistant/secretary at one of the smallest Cal State Unis.

No wonder tuition costs are skyrocketing in our state!! and our budget is out of whack!

I'm sure there are more examples these are just the two that stuck with me when I was job hunting

**Epidemic** · May 25th, 2012, 02:38 PM

is that a week, month or year?

**tony_j15** · May 25th, 2012, 02:46 PM

It ain't just government, brother. I'm sure you'll find discrepencies like that with any industry.

**RicheemxX** · May 25th, 2012, 02:52 PM

AFAIK both are Per month, Yeah I'm sure there are discrepancies but damn that is just crazy.

The craziness isn't just the discrepancy but that an exec assistant can make nearly $100k/yr while tuition costs have sky rocketed around here.

**SoloCamo** · May 25th, 2012, 03:00 PM

Originally Posted by RicheemxX

AFAIK both are Per month, Yeah I'm sure there are discrepancies but damn that is just crazy.

The craziness isn't just the discrepancy but that an exec assistant can make nearly $100k/yr while tuition costs have sky rocketed around here.

Exec Assists are pretty much treated as execs and paid as such at my company, though (the one's i've dealt with) are usually very behind on how anything works within the company, nor know anything about the products, how they work, how to use a computer besides facebook, etc. They do know how to get a mean cup o' joe to that angry overworked exec though and yell at people just like them too!

Yup, they get paid well for a fetch job to please some schmuck (Ever notice most exec assists are young ladies with a great body and no brain?). It's a sad thing when I'm excited to actually run into somebody at my company in that position and they know what they are doing and aren't complete idiots!

**RicheemxX** · May 25th, 2012, 03:08 PM

Well shit I guess I won't get that job

HaHA I was actually looking at another position they had for someone in the IT sector. Applied for both just for shits and grins (not the ESC I know shit about that

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**Theophylact** · May 25th, 2012, 06:40 PM

Administrative people always get more pay than the people who actually do the work. True in business, academics and government. Guess who get to make the salary decisions.

**Bizkitkid2001** · May 25th, 2012, 07:18 PM

Here in Bexar, a person without a college degree of any kind, can run for JP. 5 of our JPs make over $87,000 a year, and 1 makes over $63,000 a year. Of course, JPs are elected so it would be very hard for someone with only a high school degree to actually win. My Government 2301 teacher says that if any of his students wanted to run for JP, they can. Last year, two of his students ran. (One got close to winning even)

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**Chuckiechan** · May 26th, 2012, 01:34 AM

And they leave with a gold plated retirement with full benefits with a medical plan congress is envious of. It often includes the spouse for the rest of their lives, even if they have never worked a day for the government. And if you have kids, they are insured on the state's dime until they are 21 or 24 if in college with zero cost to the retiree.

And finally, they are frequently retained as "consultants" in the same office to keep the money flowing, even as they draw their full retirement - IE "double dipping". This is especially handy when you are under budget and have to burn a few million to keep from getting a cut next year because you didn't spend it all!

But it's all coming to an end soon. Each budget cycle has few mirrors and less smoke available to cover up their deficit.

**RicheemxX** · May 26th, 2012, 05:51 AM

The avg from what I've seen is $15-20/hr and I can understand that, the top is maybe 50-60K. I'm not happy with that number but I can let that swing. You are starting at $50k and pushing 100K that I'm not good with.

Especially like I said tuition it going up and this is a smaller State Uni. So what is the boss making? $300-400k? or more?

**Steve R Jones** · May 26th, 2012, 07:15 AM

Emergency Services Coordinator

Is there a link to the job description?

I was an insurance "coordinator" for ten years... Meant that I was the middle man between the employees and the insurance companies.

**Chuckiechan** · May 26th, 2012, 11:11 AM

BTW, 60K in California is not a great paycheck. It's OK, but you can't support a family on it very well.

That's part of the problem.

**MTAtech** · May 26th, 2012, 11:49 AM

I'm not sure I understand the issue. Is the salary range what's being argued?

**Chuckiechan** · May 26th, 2012, 12:12 PM

In this thread, yes.

But in reality the real problem is both salary and benefits, and "direct deposit" of public union dues leading to outsized influence on elections. And in the mean time the unfunded pensions are in excess of 500 billion and climbing.

Your union buddies will all be in California in November fighting the prohibition on direct collection of union dues from public employee paychecks.

FYI, it's Petition CISS #11-0010. No proposition number has been assigned yet.

If you're out here, PM me. I'll buy lunch.