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2,409 Chicago city employees make over $100,000 per year
Topic Started: Aug 2 2013, 03:34 PM (260 Views)
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While residents across Chicago continue to struggle facing a 10.3 percent unemployment rate and a median household income of $47,371, according to the 2010 U.S. Census the city of Chicago is paying 2,409 of its employees over $100,000 per year.

The city’s roughly $2.4 billion payroll includes over 32,000 police, firefighters, emergency responders, city council (aldermen and their staff), mayoral staff, water management staff, transportation, budget management, animal control, crossing guards, librarians, foster grandparents, etc., who are paid an average of $74,698.

The city payroll does not include school employees, 1,500 of whom also earn more than $100,000 a year.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/08/01/Rahm-s-Chicago-2-409-City-Employees-Make-Over-100k-Per-Year

Of the 2,409 city employees making over $100k, the average annual income is $114,610, with 137 employees making over $150,000. Mayor Rahm Emanuel is paid $216,210, Fire Commissioner Jose Santiago is paid $202,728, and Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy leads the pack at $260,004 a year. Aldermen are paid roughly $114,000 a year.

The city’s Budget director, Alexandra Holt, and Chief Financial Officer are both paid $169,992.

On Wednesday, Emanuel’s office released its Annual Financial Analysis for 2013, forecasting a “budget shortfall” of $330 million for 2014. Despite the “shortfall” and Moody’s recent triple downgrade of the city’s bond rating, the budget forecast estimates the city payroll will increase nearly $100 million for the next year.

Employees making over $100,000 a year account for $276,097,550 of the city’s annual expenses.
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Interesting how the FFC can only quote Breitbart.com and other right wing circle jerk blogs.

Also missing is a comparison to other cities, which would possibly show a systemic issue with corruption nationwide.

Oh, but you want this to be about Obama, don't you dear?

PS: Your party won't win the presidency again for at least three more cycles. Eat shit.
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Running a huge city like Chicago is like running an enormous company.

You need to attract employees with skills.
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Aug 2 2013, 04:05 PM
Running a huge city like Chicago is like running an enormous company.

You need to attract employees with skills.
No no no no no!

It's Obama! He's evil! He's corrupt! He's Satan!

He's a Stalinist Marxist Socialist Commie Muslim Atheist Fag!

And he's not American!

Ahhhhhhhh!!!

(Head explodes.)
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OP also treats 75K to 100K as if that is some obscenely high pay scale. It's not, especially in a more expensive major city.

I wonder if FFC knows what his Repug Congressman and Senators make, and that they're likely multimillionaires through means far more corrupt than anything happening in Chicago.

But keep up the Faux News garbage. It amuses those of us with critical thinking skills.
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I learned that the bus drivers in my city often make $70k + per year. For dropping off tards at stops all day??
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Aug 2 2013, 04:15 PM
I learned that the bus drivers in my city often make $70k + per year. For dropping off tards at stops all day??
Your mind has been warped by so many people living in minimum wage poverty that you are bitching about 70k as if it's enough to afford a yacht and a home on the French Riviera.

It's a perfectly acceptable salary for a bus driver, dear.
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$100,000.00 is not a lot of money if you live in a large city. My AA made $76,000.00 and considering her experience level and the functions she performed she was worth more. Chicago has over 32,000 employees so I find it surprising that only 2400 make over 100 grand.
Edited by Tybee, Aug 2 2013, 04:20 PM.
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In fact, with the bullshit bus drivers had to put up with in my last two US cities (Portland and San Francisco), that is on the low end of reasonable. Especially in SF, where a studio will run you $2000/month.
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Chicago = the next Detroit
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Aug 2 2013, 04:43 PM
Chicago = the next Detroit
That was thinly veiled.
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While residents across Chicago continue to struggle facing a 10.3 percent unemployment rate and a median household income of $47,371, according to the 2010 U.S. Census the city of Chicago is paying 2,409 of its employees over $100,000 per year.


How are unemployment and the city's payroll connected? If you pay city employees less, it's not going to decrease the unemployment rate. If you get rid of some city employees, it'll increase the unemployment rate. If you do either of those things and give the money saved by the city to the unemployed, you do nothing to the unemployment rate and increase what right wingers call socialism.
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