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Los Angeles fire captain tops city’s highest-paid list with $712,000 in 2022
Posted on 1/8/23 at 11:13 pm
Posted on 1/8/23 at 11:13 pm
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Eighty-six Los Angeles Fire Department employees made more than $400,000 in 2022, including a fire captain who made $712,933 last year.
That fire captain was the highest-paid employee in the city. The captain had a base pay of $169,764 and was paid $502,681 for overtime, along with $19,637 in other pay and personnel benefits of $20,851. In 2021, the highest-paid employee also was a fire captain. That captain made $434,394 in overtime in 2021, for a total pay of $598,532.
The fire department spent $817.4 million on payroll in 2022, a 2.4% increase from $798.2 million the year before. Overtime costs in 2022 decreased by 8% to $225 million from $244.9 million the year before.
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The average mean wage for a surgeon in California in 2021 was $351,580, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The average pay for a fire chief in Los Angeles in 2022 was $320,336.44, according to Payroll Explorer.
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Posted on 1/8/23 at 11:15 pm to SPEEDY
That's awesome
Posted on 1/8/23 at 11:18 pm to SPEEDY
Still Probably barely making ends meet in LA.
Posted on 1/8/23 at 11:18 pm to SPEEDY
Posted on 1/8/23 at 11:23 pm to SPEEDY
$512k in overtime.
WTF
WTF
Posted on 1/8/23 at 11:25 pm to Robin Masters
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Still Probably barely making ends meet in LA.
Posted on 1/8/23 at 11:30 pm to SPEEDY
Captain making OT, BRPD jealous AF
Posted on 1/8/23 at 11:34 pm to SPEEDY
Just did some quick math. This captain makes around 81/hr which puts him 4100 hours of overtime a year. That’s an average of 79 hours of overtime EVERY week. California has some very pro-worker labor laws. Only thing that I can figure is there’s some sort of “reporting pay” for each phone call he receives. Otherwise, Latoya might have a cousin who’s mayor in L.A. who has a thing for firemen.
Posted on 1/8/23 at 11:45 pm to SPEEDY
Probably had to live in Riverside.
Posted on 1/8/23 at 11:59 pm to biggie
They probably have it written into their union contracts for some ridiculous "on call" pay.
My wife has worked in hospital settings where their Union position paid them "$12/hr" just to be on call. They rarely went in. She made like an extra $50K a year between that and true OT in DC, with 1/5 of that from true call outs.
My wife has worked in hospital settings where their Union position paid them "$12/hr" just to be on call. They rarely went in. She made like an extra $50K a year between that and true OT in DC, with 1/5 of that from true call outs.
Posted on 1/9/23 at 12:00 am to SPEEDY
The homeless encampment fires aren't gonna put themselves out.
Posted on 1/9/23 at 12:03 am to biggie
I think they get double time on Sundays out there.. still that’s a lot of hours.
Posted on 1/9/23 at 12:11 am to SPEEDY
better them than some part-time school teacher or football coach
Posted on 1/9/23 at 12:32 am to biggie
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79 hours of overtime EVERY week.
They're on the clock when they're at the house, even when they're sleeping. 5 days on 2 days off is 120 hours a week. Seems pretty easily obtained.
Posted on 1/9/23 at 2:18 am to WONTONGO
Meanwhile, guys at brfd are happy to sniff $60k
Posted on 1/9/23 at 2:34 am to holmesbr
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Probably had to live in Riverside.
Sounds like he lives at the fire station.
Posted on 1/9/23 at 3:32 am to SPEEDY
Seems crazy that certain positions aren’t salary vs hourly
Posted on 1/9/23 at 3:57 am to SPEEDY
Who was that guy at BRPD (Lt. Cory Reech?) that was making more than the Chief and the Mayor? Dude was running a total scam before he retired.
He had built up so much vacation that he would take vacation, so he's getting regular pay, and then sign up for every vacation day and Holiday overtime assignment at double or triple pay. Dude would be clocking quadruple pay for twelve hour shifts. There was definitely some shenanigans too though. He clocked something like eleven hours a day every day one year.
That guy was single handedly responsible for all those DWI checkpoints they would run around the LSU area and Corporate Boulevard in the early 2000's. Those things were funded through some government grant via MADD. He retired and those checkpoints stopped practically overnight.
He had built up so much vacation that he would take vacation, so he's getting regular pay, and then sign up for every vacation day and Holiday overtime assignment at double or triple pay. Dude would be clocking quadruple pay for twelve hour shifts. There was definitely some shenanigans too though. He clocked something like eleven hours a day every day one year.
That guy was single handedly responsible for all those DWI checkpoints they would run around the LSU area and Corporate Boulevard in the early 2000's. Those things were funded through some government grant via MADD. He retired and those checkpoints stopped practically overnight.
Posted on 1/9/23 at 4:46 am to biggie
Was your 4,100 hours at time and a half and or double time?
My bet is once on OT the pay scale is something like the first 10 hours is time and a half, then double time, then triple time, etc.
I’m sure the captain is managing his income based on the union rules. I know state troopers that do that to a lesser extent.
I also know sales people who do the same thing. They will spend a ton of time breaking down exactly what to sell to maximize their income. I love sales reps like those.
My bet is once on OT the pay scale is something like the first 10 hours is time and a half, then double time, then triple time, etc.
I’m sure the captain is managing his income based on the union rules. I know state troopers that do that to a lesser extent.
I also know sales people who do the same thing. They will spend a ton of time breaking down exactly what to sell to maximize their income. I love sales reps like those.
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