Government Pay Gone Wild
Local city and county leaders love flying around the country for their annual Inter-City Visits and touting all the wonderful ideas they reap during their adventures, which in turn can be emulated and implemented in Charlotte-Mecklenburg.
We are doomed if they ever Inter-City visit Bell, California, a small town in Los Angeles County with some crazy-big salaries for its government employees. How crazy-big? Try $800,000 for the city manager, $457,000 for the police chief and $376,000 for an assistant city manager. For a town of 38,000 residents. Bell bureaucrats, though, aren’t the only ones riding the gravy train: part-time city councilmembers pocket about $100,000 a year.
Toss those numbers into the mix for comparative/competitive compensation surveys that Char-Meck officials make every time they want a raise and stew on it.
UPDATE: Well, that was quick. The three bureaucrats are on their way out, after a closed-door meeting that stretched past midnight, but the councilmembers are sticking around – at least for now.
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