https://publicpay.ca.gov/Reports/Cities/City.aspx?entityid=4...
As of 2018, about 90 people making 300k or more in SF County, probably over 100 by now.
As of 2018, about 90 people making 300k or more in SF County, probably over 100 by now.
For government you have to factor in job security, generous pension and benefits, and guaranteed annual pay raises.
Engineers have none of those things.
How about employees making $200K or over? That's 1790, or just about 4%. $100K or over? 15997 employees, or around 39%. So over 60% of SF city employees make under $100K. The median salary, in fact, is just under $86K.
I could be wrong, but I suspect that's lower than Facebook's median salary.
My anecdata is from a different police force elsewhere in the country. There, your pension is based on the average of your last 2 years of service. When you reach retirement age, it is orchestrated for you to get a promotion and as much overtime (at time and a half) as you're able to work. So people double or triple their last years' salary and then retire making more than they legitimately made before the scheme. Millions and millions of dollars are stolen from the people just through this one law enforcement pension program.