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- Aero347, on 06/14/2009, -16/+504But have you seen how clean the transient system is?! Oh wait..
- diggyduggle, on 06/15/2009, -6/+432Car cleaner? Washing fleet cars for 6 figures?
BRB moving to San Fransisco. - jsplat24, on 06/15/2009, -23/+368Not suprising. You have to make 100,000 a year just to pay your rent in San Fran.
- gr00vy, on 06/15/2009, -4/+252Are you kidding me? A flicker page screenshot????
http://www.sfgate.com/webdb/sfpay/index.shtml - Akraz, on 06/15/2009, -7/+207Ill clean transit cars for $100,000 .... ill lick the ***** gum off the ground too.
- Hillsfar, on 06/14/2009, -10/+199You mean I could have just gotten on-the-job training on advanced grime fighting and chewing gum removal techniques, rather than go to college to get two degrees, in order to make twice what I make now?!?
- funkedup, on 06/15/2009, -3/+192a high school diploma and a felony.
- inactive, on 06/14/2009, -11/+192Insane, but I am sure that is not their only problem.
- NeuralNetwork, on 06/15/2009, -14/+155This is exactly the reason why companies like GM went bankrupt. People getting paid $40/hr to put a sticker on a car or to tighten a bolt. What a disgrace!
- tonmil, on 06/14/2009, -12/+130So fire some of the government officials. Why can't the government have 20% across the board layoffs so that costs match tax revenues?
- Husky217, on 06/15/2009, -1/+98It's Southern California and I have fruit.
- inactive, on 06/15/2009, -4/+100dont digg him down. I live right next to GMs largest factory, its true- People with high school diplomas making 40$/hour.
- inactive, on 06/15/2009, -1/+87^^ You might be able to get by with a GED, but the felony is mandatory.
- kalv, on 06/15/2009, -1/+87What kind of education do I need to get this well paid job?
- HouseofEl, on 06/15/2009, -6/+88If the cost of living is so high that a 6 figure salary is not enough to live very well, then there's something criminal going on.
- gnash, on 06/15/2009, -5/+81
Data from 2007, but still FTW. Mayor makes "only" 215k and is ranked #64.
From the top 10:
3 police officers make over $260k
2 assistant medical examiners make over $260k
#1? He is a "SPECIAL NURSE" Christian Kitchen who makes $350k. (apparently a jail nurse... but still).... http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/City_spreads_aroun ...
Anyone pissed off yet? You should be. Query the data yourself:
http://www.sfgate.com/webdb/sfpay/index.shtml - cyberfreak01, on 06/15/2009, -17/+89I'm all for people making a living for themselves and i'm very pro union, but people making 100k a year for totally unskilled labor really makes me mad. And then when they act like they're entitled to make that good of living really aggravates me
- DontThinkSo, on 06/15/2009, -2/+71City/County officials don't work for the state; they work for the city and county.
- peestandingup, on 06/15/2009, -3/+63Enjoy the cost of living.
- hoisonsauce, on 06/15/2009, -1/+57Wait...the system of people who stay somewhere temporarily?
- Richandler, on 06/14/2009, -3/+58For some reason I'm willing to bet these people aren't the part of the State Budget problem considering they work for San Francisco. Vallejo, another Bay Area town actually had problems and went Bankrupt.
- veloscaper, on 06/14/2009, -7/+59and 25% pay-cuts for the rest to match the economy.
- BlackOculus, on 06/15/2009, -2/+52As a software engineer making $50k/year I'm high shocked and saddened by these figures.
/cry
/fleshlight - Gonasadude, on 06/15/2009, -0/+49I'm pretty damn sure he realized it was a yearly salary..
- appleofdischord, on 06/15/2009, -2/+47I work just outside of S.F. and make less than half that - at a job requiring a science degree.
- zakool21, on 06/15/2009, -9/+51Have you ever tried to rent a place in SF? If you have, you'd know this is NOT true. You calling it "San Fran" is also a dead giveaway that you probably haven't even stepped foot in California.
The people on that salary listing, in most likelihood, have been working for the city/county for a long time and have gotten progressive pay increases as time goes by. As someone who has looked for jobs on the SF job website, I can tell you that equivalent jobs start around $30k+ right now for newbies. - Misinformant, on 06/15/2009, -3/+45I wanna be a janitor when I grow up!
- patRIOTik, on 06/15/2009, -4/+44Then apparently there's something criminal going on. San Francisco is unbelievably expensive.
- diggapleeeze, on 06/15/2009, -4/+43People don't realize, in SF, that's right above poverty level.
- itinerantspectr, on 06/14/2009, -5/+43San Franciscans like things to be clean, that's why they always notice when people have flies in their frickin' house.
- me2000, on 06/15/2009, -1/+39Since when is 100k a year not worth much...?
- manicjunkee, on 06/15/2009, -5/+42I think you are missing the point charm. His sarcasm is pointed at the fact that the salary pay for those jobs is not appropriate. These people aren't working smarter they are getting paid too much to a job that a high school drop out could do.
As far as the Steve Jobs comparison....well I guess you are comparing the intelligence of city public transit cleaning personnel to a very strong leader....I think you just insulted him. - Ultomato, on 06/15/2009, -7/+42not that insane when these numbers include overtime... http://www.sfgate.com/webdb/sfpay/index.shtml?appS ...
- okgenius33, on 06/15/2009, -2/+35Hi there. I'm (Your Name). I'm here for the car cleaning job. Yes, I most certainly will undercut the current cleaner by 30%.
- BoneStamp, on 06/15/2009, -1/+32You put "zombies" and I DON'T want to do it.
- mobilebond, on 06/14/2009, -9/+40In UK recent scandal was about government officials spending their taxpayers money, I think some such stories wait us ahead in many other parts of the world, including California
- solistus, on 06/15/2009, -11/+39Aside from a handful of oddities like this, government jobs are not known for fat paychecks. Senators make a little over 6 figures (about as much as a transit cleaner in SF, apparently) and even the President only gets $400K - nothing to sneeze at but pathetic compared to the salary of any upper management suit at an even moderately successful private corporation. Government jobs typically have lower pay than the private sector, often substantially, but with great benefits.
A fairly small proportion of our national budget goes to paying salaries. If you want to look for excess spending, look no further than the few hundred billion dollars we spend every year on a military that hasn't been sent to a declared war since WWII. I'm not saying we need fewer troops necessarily, but we are currently dropping many many billions into a new fleet of F-22s when we already have F-15s that give us absolute air superiority over any enemy we have any chance of engaging in a conventional war with. DARPA gets billions to play with, handing out private R&D contracts that almost never come to fruition so that defense contractors can take the completed portions of research, apply them to other projects and then bill us again for the technology. Eisenhower was right; too bad nobody listened. - biotch, on 06/15/2009, -3/+31"Then apparently there's something criminal going on."
It IS expensive but lets not blow this out of proportion.
My friend lives in SF for 12 bucks an hour at his job.... He doesnt live well but he lives in a non crime ridden area at least. - 1smartguy, on 06/15/2009, -1/+28It's the least reported problem, and the pensions are ticking time bombs.
- Super6, on 06/15/2009, -6/+33Ah, now the 100k salary makes perfect sense, these guys can clean 3x as many cars in the same amount of time as someone with only one year on the job, right?
- Aslan72, on 06/15/2009, -16/+42Those are deceptive numbers - how much do other cleaners make? What's the mean salary in the city? What's a 100,000 get you in SF?
- Bloodwine, on 06/15/2009, -3/+29The notion that government workers are underpaid vs. their private counterparts is no longer true. In fact, government workers often make comparable (or even superior) pay as well as have all the government perks and benefits.
They got the benefits originally due to lower pay, but now they have their cake and eat it too. - gemlarin, on 06/15/2009, -5/+31$800 a month for a decent place in a good area of San Fran City limits eh? Obviously your idea of "decent" is far different from mine. My rent was $1400 a month, and that was with a roommate ($2800/month for the two of us). It was a 2 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath, in North Beach, which may be considered a good place but certainly not the most expensive neighborhood, nor was it a plush apartment. Have you ever actually rented in San Fran?
- DavidNiven, on 06/15/2009, -4/+30Hey, it's not the politician's money. What do they care? And most get reelected with ease. Way to go, ambivalent voters.
- funkedup, on 06/15/2009, -7/+33Yeah I agree. If people think that GM was run poorly before, just wait until the UAW and government run it...
- drmangrum, on 06/15/2009, -2/+26Damn, I'm in the wrong business.
- sulayman, on 06/15/2009, -7/+30You're kidding, right? Both the BART and Muni train lines are kept pretty damn clean. BART has some staining issues, but that's mostly because they stupidly opted for cloth upholstery and carpets. Hard to clean those. Otherwise, they're great. No graffiti, no trash on the floors, no real messes of any kind. And the stations are practically immaculate compared to other major metro transit stations I've seen. Even the BART tracks are somehow kept litter-free (though I have no idea how).
All things considered, SF's transit system is pretty clean. - rchargel, on 06/15/2009, -1/+24TRANSIT CAR CLEANER at 100K/year could be replaced by CONVICTED FELON at $0.25/hour.
- Claverhouse, on 06/15/2009, -0/+22And I understand they have a very responsive police force.
- syn3rgyz, on 06/15/2009, -0/+22I'm from NYC and I'm spending my summer in Virginia DC area, their metro is pretty clean
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