Bruno Barreiro:
Marlelne Avalo - Comm Legislative Asst. $71,000
Maria Beatrix - Comm Legislative Asst. $71,000
Loreta Sanchez - Chief of Staff $107,120
He has 7 on his staff: Salary Total $422,085
Lynda Bell:
Sandra Silvestre - Executive Asst. $51,500
Johanna Faddis - Senior Comm Legislative Analyst $66,950
Edward Borrego - Chief of Staff $87,550
She has 8 on her staff: Salary Total $376,996
Estaban Steve Bovo:
Cirenia Andino - Legislative Director $49,000
Gisette Bolt - Executive Asst $56,686
Bovo doesn't have a Chief of Staff (Gisette closest thing to one)
He has 7 people on his staff: Salary Total $231,519
Pepe Le Pew Diaz:
Belkys Romay - Executive Asst. $75,000
Maria Lievano-Cruz - Chief of Staff $116,584
Doesn't have a Legislative Analyst??
He has 6 on his staff - Salary Total $408,729
Barbara Jordan:
Ryan Hawkins - Senior Comm Legislative Analyst $57,749
Floyd Trenae - Public Affairs Coordinator $66,300
Andre Ragin - Chief of Staff $128,258
She has 7 on her staff: Salary Total $404,147
Joe Martinez:
Manuel Orbis - BCC Legislative Asst. $36,299 (others on staff make more)
Maittee Manoah - Exec Secretary $56,299
Esther Abolila - Chief of Staff $97,999
He has 6 on his Commission Staff: Salary Total $288,645
See salaries for all aides of these County Commissioners:
36 comments:
The real atrocity is that these flunkies get free health insurance for life...
Eddie B only gets 87k? What a bargain!
Gimenez is raising the premiums on health insurance by 20% in the coming year. No one gets free insurance for life.
Individual employees make a small contribution (plus up to 9-10% of their base pay depending on where they work) for insurance, but everyone pays for dependent coverage. The 20% increase in dependent coverage, plus your 9-10% contribution does not make county health insurance a bargain.
If you put in 30 years, I think you can buy group coverage until you reach Medicare age.
Thanks for clearing that up, Lynda.
Someone should tell Bovo about the County's Living Wage laws.
Missed all the other bcc jobs hidden out of district staff like commission auditor, intergovernmental, protocal, and office of the chair,
We work more than 40 hours a week. Our phone don't stop ringing with calls and request even as we sit to try and have a bite to eat. We work nights and weekends with out getting paid overtime. In the past 5 years we have yet to see a raise nor are we represented by a union. Yet just because we are public employee and work for elected officials you feel the right to humiliate us and assume we don't work just as hard if not harder than you do for our money. We are well educated and have the experience to justify our salaries. You should walk a mile in our shoes, find out what our jobs are really like and the stress level we deal with before you judge and belittle us.
"We are well educated and have the experience to justify our salaries. You should walk a mile in our shoes,"
I'd love to, but the jobs you have are more political appointments than anything. They're not advertised, so how would we know what anyone's resume looks like and their private sector work, or education.
If it's so tough, get a job in the real world, not being lobbied all day! Give me a break! Working as a commission aide is certainly not "public service", it's self service or service to the commissioner. Apples to Oranges in the "public employee" comparison.
Does the on duty cops driving around the Commissioners come out of their district funds, the commission funds or the general funds? Jordan seems to really think she needs that in addition to her staff who I guess cannot drive her around.
I didn't judge or belittle any of you. I just reported public records. I assume some of you are underpaid, and some of you are overpaid depending on your performance. But I don't know enough about any of your jobs to say anything except you all work for idiots.
At times allowing negative commentary which the blog administrators sometimes control and possibly censor by occasionally removing could be taken as judging.
You posted this info just for that exactlly. You posted it so that all your bloggers can judge and belittle, which they have true to form. I wonder why the people that are judging don't post their jobs and salaries. Post the hours they work for free. Post the phone calls they receive 24 hours a day.
Getting a bit defensive, are we? Job stress my ass. Oh, and I'd love to "walk a mile" in your shoes. Probably a hell of a lot more comfortable than the working class ones I must wear daily doing manual labor for a fraction of you're bloated salary. Just to clear things up, y'all might work for the people and all that, but y'all get some purty impressive bennies, now don't you? Liquid lunches all around. Nice try blame shifting to the "cop drivers".
Dear you must learn to spell if you are going to work for the county. I am the only blogger. The people writing are your citizens and your commissioners constituents they are not bloggers. They have a voice here.
Lady I pay your salary with taxes. You don't pay mine.
Stress my ass. I'd walk a mile in your designer shoes-probably a whole lot more comfortable then my work boots and most assuredly farther than you walk in a week, being chauffered by the cops and all (nice blame shift)...BTW, I have no County issued vehicle or a vehicle allowance-that's covered by my first job, as is the insurance. My mid-day meal consists of a PBnJ and a Gatoraide G-2, not the al fresca accompanied by a $30 bottle of Napa Valley Chardonnay and the obligatory "Cube Libre" Rum concoction that y'all quaff at lunch in alarming quantites. I can afford my health insurance thanks to my second job. Y'all Commish handlers got it made in the shade, even underpaid, bargain basement Eddie B.
I noted that you only included the BAD commissioners aides. Any reason for that?
Don't these people working for the county commissioners know this same information is on the Herald's Data Sleuth? How dumb are they. Don't they realize they are working for us and that their salary information is public record. They are worse than county staff with their whining. I like the fact that they attack you for posting what is public record.
Don't be a wuss, "God", post the truth
For those of you who think it’s good sport to trash County employees, remember that some of us are the only thing that stands between the decisions of the idiots you elect (or not, if you’re too lazy to get off your ass and vote) and what’s right for our community and our environment. Not all County employees are created equal. And anyone who actually writes “y’all” when they mean "you all” is a putz.
I did post the truth, I posted public records. Apparently you can't handle the truth and you are attacking the blogger. That gets you deleted. Read the warning.
If you guys don't like your salaries being posted get out of government. I guess some of you don't want the others in your office to know what you make.
This post isn't about the Mayor. That is why you are deleted.
As someone who was in the county, I will say that I was on call 24/7 and I didn't have liquid lunches. In fact, I paid for things like groceries and meds for constituents out of my so called inflated salary when no social service agency could help. I bought school supplies and uniforms so children had the things they needed even when I didn't have a child.
My salary with 20 years of experience in social services was 35 k.... My husband used to come home and cook his own dinners after working all day because I would be out at meetings being yelled at by people who were frustrated by county government. I tried to make it better by going to the meetings... So people, don't be butt wads... Some of us cared about you and your lives.
You are the only one, "God" that gets to tell the truth. Come on, why is it ok for everyone to know their pay and not yours. Because its ok to attack them, not you. These people work for every dollar they get, they have kids, they have lives. Come on, "God" what did they do to you besides work for a living
I'm not sure who's more at fault here: the politicians who accept the salaries that are allowed by legislation or the voters who vote for the legislators who make the legislation.
Maybe the electorate should stop pointing fingers and start waking up to the fact that they are at fault as much, if not more, than the politicians.
You elect them, folks.
Good job.
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You said: Come on, why is it ok for everyone to know their pay and not yours. Because its ok to attack them, not you.
My salary is not a concern because I am not a public employee: County Salaries have been on line for years...
http://www.miamifly.net/watchdog/datasleuth/db/employee/
I didn't attack anyone in my post. I did say my opinion of the commissioners (calling them the worst) but I didn't attack them...not in this post.
I reported. If you don't want your salary made public - Don't work for a government entity. Apparently thousands of you care about who makes what.
Sour grapes. REad the post again....I just posted public records.
Martinez only reflects 6 staff because he also has a separate staff pool within the chairs office.
..it all depends on the sight of the beholder: what would be a fair salary? For arguments sake, let's say $50,000.
It all depends on how much we make ourselves. If we make under $50,000 sounds like too much money!
If, we make over $50,000 - then it's a fair salary. It's a no-win situation. I do feel staff work harder than the commies, but they get all the limelight and glory.
Staff jobs are political hires. Easy hours and low stress. 80% of the time the commissioners are no where to be found. Occasionally commissioners show up for meetings and votes. Dim wit Bruno Barrerio misses 1 out of every 5 votes.
First let me say that I am fine with the fact that you or any other blogger has taken the time to post up public records such as salary. In no way do I feel embarrassed or upset since it is taxpayers money; that I too pay.The only problem I have is that as a blogger you have chosen only certain Commissioners, it does seem a bit biased;maybe posting all 13 would be more relevant. Also, people like to judge and point fingers but the numbers you see, don't give you all the information. For instance, a lot of us county employees are on call, we don't just work a 9-5 job we work weekends as well; we don't all drive the county vehicle, we drive our own and gas isn't reimbursed; there are days that we get angry calls and visits from constituents who can be very disrespectful but as professionals we take it as a grain of salt and continue to help; all the positions are not appointments, other candidates are interviewed. I just have to say that I am very grateful for my job, I chose to work for the public sector and no matter what people say or do I will continue to put a smile on my face and try my best to help whomever calls or comes to our office for assistance.
Thank you for your comment. Much appreciated.
I really didn't feel anyone was overpaid on that list as some of you are doing heavy-lifting, trying to make bad commissioners look good. I guess I left some Commissioner's staff out because I wasn't all that interested.
What is "easy" hours? Working until 2:00am reading agendas? Working weekends at the events the county puts on almost every weekend? Getting and taking care of phone calls at your daughter's dance recital? You have no idea what you are talking about.
A few naive questions: Who sets the amount that commissioners can spend on their staff? Is it the same for all commissioners? Do commissioners get to determine the number of staff members working for them and allocate salary funds among them?
If the answers to the last two questions is "yes", then logically the real beef about staff working for bad commissioners should be directed at the voters who put the commissioners in office. Otherwise, it's like complaining that idiot congress members like Allen West get to pay their staff the same as Debbie Wasserman-Schultz pays hers.
There is, or should be, a distinction between personal staff who serve the agenda of the elected official they work for, and agency staff who are supposed to carry out the mission of their agency.
Public employees know their salaries are matters of public record and don't have a problem with that. What they do object to is the implication running through the comment string that they are all overpaid and incompetent. Paying government employees a decent salary won't always guarantee you'll get a dedicated and competent civil servant, but NOT paying a competitive salary will pretty much insure that you won't.
Wow. A reasonable and educated comment by soflanewbie.
Which, of course, is met by crickets because it is, well, reasonable and educated.
The county commissioners have budgets that they can disburse as they wish. Don't know how much, you can ask if you are interested. Yes they can set the staff numbers. People are angry at these commissioners and it spills over to their staff, who do their bidding. People working for the county aren't big fans of commission staff who tend to act like big shots.
Anyone remember why Pedro Reboredo is no longer a county commissioner? His so-called "hard working" aides were actually in no show jobs.
I am suspicious of all of these political hacks, especially any who claim they are overworked or underpaid. I also don't think sitting like a statue behind the commissioners during the meeting qualifies as hard work. It's an odd practice that needs to come to an end.
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