The social conservative wife of a local union firefighter has tried to take advantage of the fires to attack Carl DeMaio for his PENSION REFORM on a semi-official GOP website! Her REAL beef with DeMaio is that he is openly gay and socially tolerant -- but thats not selling well in his district race. Hence this person has resorted to (in laymans language) lying about several aspects of the reform, and firefighter compensation. I worked up a response on firefighter compensation on the blog (SDRostra), but Ive decided that the info might be interesting to my Facebook readers as well. Also it provides a valuable source for checking out local public employee compensation, by city or county. Hence this post: The desperation of Mary to discredit DeMaio for -- of all things -- PENSION REFORM -- leads to stunning lies and misrepresentations. I can forgive such if it comes from ignorance, but Mary is NOT ignorant about firefighter compensation. As the wife of a firefighter, she gets it. She LITERALLY gets it. For instance, she claims that A firefighter makes less than $60k annually. BREATHTAKING dishonesty. MAYBE one can get away with such misrepresentations without challenge elsewhere -- but not on SDRostra, and not with me. Below is an excellent source of info on local public employee pay in California -- from an objective source. You can search for your jurisdictions in any government job category on this website. Its quite easy to use. For our purposes, Ive sorted out the local firefighters in San Diego County. Heres that link: sacbee/2011/03/03/3446569/see-average-police-firefighter.html?appSession=761454363560141&RecordID=&PageID=2&PrevPageID=1&cpipage=1&CPISortType=&CPIorderBy= The average 2012 pay for a San Diego Fire Department (SDFD) Firefighter I and Firefighter II is $111,263 -- NOT Marys absurdly bogus less than $60K. Moreover, SDFD is the 4th highest paying fire department in the county -- few of our firefighters are Dempsey Dumpster diving. But thats not all. San Diego uses 4 man trucks. Only two of the four positions are filled by FF I and FF II firefighters. The third position is the truck engineer, who is paid a modest premium to also drive and oversee maintenance of the fire engine. The fourth position is Fire Captain, who gets (in SDFD) $121,839 on average -- and (if an existing hire -- most are) calculates his generous retirement pension based on a fire captains salary (usually at the highest step). Most local firefighters (if they stay on the job past 20 years) function as a truck fire captain at some point -- so most get that captain pension. Most San Diego County jurisdictions pay their FF I and FF II a six figure income annually. Mary knows this, but shes SOOO anxious to attack DeMaio she has chosen to spread easily disproved falsehoods. Have you no shame, Mary?
Posted on: Mon, 19 May 2014 00:44:17 +0000
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