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I live in San Luis Obispo county (pop 250k), next county up from 404error. The city manager of SLO city makes $253k with a base salary of $157, the county administrator $211k, the sheriff $212k. Three quarters of the highest paid are police and firefighters who turn $70k base salaries into $50-175k total compensation. Combine that with generous retirement benefits and it is huge.

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Oh, the retirement benefits are insane. Presidents have a guaranteed pension of $160k for the rest of their lives, funded outside of the social security system. Many local officials have even higher pensions.

No matter how you do as President, you'll be comfortable for life (not counting speaker fees, which are at least market-driven). Seems like such a sweet deal, I'd do it just for the money...and that thought is what scares me.

I know this is off topic, but how is the Hacker Community up in SLO? Down here it's pretty much non-existing.

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