Remember, this means half the staff is making less than this. This isn't a real lot of money if you have a family. I just put in the name DIAZ to get a glimpse of salaries at the County. Here are the results:
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| I was told you have to take the “gross pay last paycheck” and multiply it by 26 (the number of checks received a year, they get paid every two weeks). So Guillermo Diaz in the Clerk of Courts makes $32,028. Or you can halve the gross pay and know what they get a week. Note I didn't take into account the health insurance. Guillermo Diaz would have made $29,569.02 with that figured in. |
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The problem with the payroll is on the 29th floor, department heads, assistance, no competitive advertising for insider jobs, etc.
The rest of the County workers actually do work for our community. The problems lay high up in food chain.
I guess I'll start pulling out how many have a base salary of employees paid over $100K + benefits and where they are.
This table is not real life. The Mayors staff and thousands of other employees make well over $100,000 per year. Many received jobs that were never put out for bid. Just political appointees. Look at Ed Marquez for example. He was a salesman pushing the Marlins scam. $3 Bil diverted. Now Gimenez makes the taxpayers pay him $250,000 per year plus benefits.
Dear Last Anon You're really missing the point in the chart.... half of the people in the county make "less" than these numbers. So for everybody in the 100,000+ RANGE there are just as many in the $30,000 or less range. They must also pay rent(they probably can't own a home), they pay the $150+ bill to FPL, the must pay for transportation to and from work whether its a old car, or the bus; they must buy groceries at Winn Dixie or Sedanos (they can't afford Whole Foods) and pay taxes just like you (hopefully)! They repair the roads east of US-1, ensure your water and sewer lines are clear and cleaned in Sunny Isles, they answer your call to 911 when your mom has a heart attack in Coral Gables, they push the wheelchair at Jackson when she gets admitted, they search the public files when you need a 20 year old record when got married the first time in Miami Beach, they obviously don't live on Star Island yet they pick up the trash there. They are fixing street signs in Kendall. Please, most of the county workers (over 30,000 including Jackson Hosp) don't have a say in the Marlins stadium and are just trying to struggle everyday to make ends meet. That table is "real life", you only read about the big shots not the 90% of county employees that don't make the news because of their jobs......This table doesn't even begin to tell the real story of County workers....
While the median is an interesting measure of central tendency of the salaries, the mean is a better indicator of the distribution because it takes into account the value of every salary in the distribution. See if you can find the mean, contrast the two measures, and look at the distribution. It maybe bi-modal, humps on each end of the distribution.
Thank you for posting this chart. Mayor Gimenez shows absolute contempt for county employees. He proudly announced how he fired 2,000 so far and is ready to fire hundreds more this go round. In addition to that personal animosity - and a failure to understand what many of the departments and employees do - I do think the County is in some trouble financially because they have overspent for pet projects, misappropriated funds and manipulated funds when needed to finance things as big as the Port expansion and tunnel and airport mega-construction to small enterprises that are pet projects of commissioners or pass thrus to favorite non-profits and arts groups, that all in turn, have their back.
To shore up the bond market - so they can keep borrowing for big projects - they have to squeeze employees who are not fired, and force draconian cuts on departments that have no one to protect them, like libraries.
We need to keep exposing the truth in Eye on Miami. Thank you!
According to a reader 4,000 pull down salaries over $100,000. That is 4,000 out of 29,000 workers. That is 13,78% of county workers that receive over $100,000. If his numbers are correct.
As long as the Miami Heat get $6.4 million from the county for operating cost, I am going to be damn angry. Thank you reader for realizing I want truth not hype.
Someone in the county has the complete picture and maybe they will share it with us. There are three measures of central tendency, namely, the mean (sum of the salaries divided by the number of salaries), the median (midpoint or half the salaries above and half below this point), and the mode (the frequency of occurrences of salaries). Of the three measures, the mean is the most representative of the distribution. To describe what is going on, we need to see all three with the distribution of the salaries shown on a line graph.
Do not forget that most of those 100k are double dipping hence the cry for more incorporation so more double dipping can be had......
Ever since 2008 when Bush & Co wrecked America's economy, private sector employees and the unemployed have taken great joy in demonizing govt. workers who were able to keep their jobs, salaries and benefits through the economic downtown. All of a sudden, these employees had "Cadillac" health insurance and exorbitant salaries because, well, they still had jobs/benefits and the people who had partied through the high-flying 90's didn't. I guess misery loves company, right?
Hopefully, govt. service will eventually be viewed again for what it is: service for the good of the country with a fair wage for honest work.
This will probably happen as soon as unemployment rates return to acceptable levels and people start worrying about how much they can put in the bank instead of bitching about how much other people are.
Thanks, GoD.
People should compete based on their skill sets in the public and private sectors. If county employees feel the county government is not paying them enough, they can opt to look elsewhere for work. It's not about Demonizing county employees, however they have unrealistic expectations. Taxpayers are not willing to fund positions just to keep people employed and out of poverty let alone at salaries above what the market can sustain. Employees whether in the public or private sector should not ask for a raise when the market does not sustain the higher salary anywhere else. Fact is if the salary is above average for the skill set in a particular region it will eventually decrease, outsourced, automated, or disappear by changing business processes. The market is always looking for ways to be more efficient. Workers must figure out that their skill sets are becoming obsolete year to year. They need to add to their skill sets year to year in a quest to stay ahead of the unemployment curve. The public sector has been immune to market forces for a long time but that is coming to an end so dust off those resumes and sharpen up those skill sets so you can remain employed. Coasting on neutral until retirement is not an option!
Thank you for this post. Most County employees are very hard working decent people that work everyday to take care of their families. There are approximately 3,000 people making over $100grand which comes out to 8% this was stated clearly during Comm Jordan's discussion at the meeting on 8/29/13. As for the deputy mayors and certain directors and deputy directors making over $250,000 that number is far less. To act as if the average County employee is some big baller is grossly incorrect. We are residents, constituents, voters and TAXPAYERS just like everyone else who bashes us. Do you think we want to raise OUR taxes? No of course not but what's fair is fair. The Mayor is taking money out of our paychecks because he can't balance the budget!!!!!! This is not a good administrator, this is not a fiscally responsible plan.....The healthcare contribution is like paying the mafia for protection. They take 5% of our salary and we still pay for our healthcare----so what is it like 15-18% (depending on what coverage you choose)of our salary for health insurance that's crazy. So someone making $60,000 per year HAS to give up 5% for the contribution even if they choose not to have the Avmed health ins provided by the County and if they do get the coverage it's 5% of your annual salary + the astronomical rates they charge for the actual ins coverage. That is WRONG!!!!!! and it was supposed to end in 2014---we all gave in thinking it would be for a couple of years during the really rough times but now WE are the bad guys because we don't want to get robbed every 2 weeks-------Gimenez is a Liar and doesn't care about anyone but himself and his so called polls. he thinks everyone is beneath him in intelligence and plays the commission every time --he use to criticize burgess for playing games but now he is the king for playing games.
And just to clarify my comments in the last post-- of course I think we should all pay for our health insurance but I don't think we should have to be taxed 5% of our salary......
In Miami-Dade County and the City of Miami public sector employees make 25% to 100% more than private sector employees. Miami-Dade County has 9-10 "parking lot attendants" who each made $50,000 per year or more. Miami-Dade County has 5-7 "painters" who make $65,000 per year or more. Plus benefits...
This is the bottomline. Salaries come from a source. If the source dries up, salaries will dry up too. Think of a well, when there is plenty of water, everyone can have as much water as they want. When the well is running dry, we have to be careful with the little water that we have. We have to spread it around as much as possible, so everyone gets a little water. No matter how bad we want the well to give more water, it is not there to get. We live in one of the poorest areas in the country. That is our situation.
I am glad you checked and gave us the real numbers. The $67,400 take home compensation is almost double the $36k you reported before.
Miami-Dade County pays higher than almost every other employer in the area. The bad news is that the high paying plum jobs go only to friends and family of existing county employees. Every Deputy Mayor, Department Director, and Deputy Department Director was hired by Gimenez without a competitive recruitment process. It's a disgraceful practice and it needs to stop. The taxpayers deserve the best qualified public servants available. Being a crony of Gimenez or Alina Hudak or Jennifer Glazer Moon should not be a prerequisite to becoming a county executive.
Maria, good luck with your demand for a competitive recruitment process. Fat chance of it happening though.
The people in charge of county human resources, Internal Services Director Lester Sola ($194,679 salary) and ISD Asst Dir for HR Arleene Cuellar ($132,522 salary), were both hired without a competitive recruitment process. How on earth can they impose on others what they didn't go through themselves?
And take a look at Arleene Cuellar's family members on the county government payroll, such as her brother Jose Galan who also works for the same ISD department as the Real Estate Division Director ($141,101) or sister-in-law Victoria Galan ($80,025), Public Affairs Manager for the Library. Cuellar is supposed be in charge of recruitment and yet she is the poster child for nepotism. It is a corrupt system from top to bottom and a corrupt person is at the helm.
Because Mayor Carlos Gimenez tolerates personnel abuse and corruption, don't expect any changes.
Miami-Dade County continues to provide FREE health insurance (Avmed High Option) for county employees. Yes, you heard me, right. It's FREE. No Charge. No employee contribution. Zilch. Zero.
What other employer on the planet earth is offering their employees free health insurance with ZERO contribution?
As long as Miami-Dade County can afford to pay 100% of the health insurance payment for county employees, I will know that the county has too much of my money.
Zero contribution for their health insurance? You have got to be kidding me. That's outrageous and disgusting. No one else gets that deal.
Quite frankly, we are happy there are jobs for county workers. And because there is enough money for them to have jobs, they can have health care and contribute some of the money they earn toward it. Many of the taxpayers who pay their salary have no healthcare, and to pay taxes for those salaries, they scrimp and save all year.
Here is the rates they pay for health insurance:
http://www.miamidade.gov/humanresources/library/2013-insurance-rates.pdf
Note the $0.00 contribution for AVMED high option insurance. What a joke. I don't make $50,000 a year and I am paying over $500 for my health insurance contribution while those lazy overpaid bastards pay nothing. Screw them. If they won't take a pay cut get rid of them.
Thanks G. O. D.
thanks lala for the scoop on the cuellar/galan nepotism. that public affairs job at the library held by victoria galan sounds like complete bullshit. if a librarian is laid off while galan keeps her nonessential job, you know the system stinks to high heaven.
Gimenez should fire, retire or cancel job openings for another 1,000+ fulltime employees. The taxpayers are fed up. Gimenez gets $400,000+ per year between his salary and various pensions so he doesn't care. He is fat and happy. Taxpayers are seen as chickens to be plucked.
I just googled Jose Galan on a whim. His career highlights include negotiating the Marlins stadium deal without checking the team's financials and managing the agreement with the Heat in which they never made a profit or paid us any rent. What a complete loser. And we are paying this idiot $141k annually and his sister is the HR director? Good grief!
http://www.fcp3.org/board-staff/jose-a-galan/
Gimenez & the majority of the BCC are poster children for Crony Capitalizm. I'd really like to see ALL positions publicly advertised and competed for since we're paying for them. I'd like to see benefit package at par with the private sector as well. How hard is that?
We're screwed every time there's a contract being approved by he BCC because it's so full of vendor insiders, that's another issue of whoever hires the biggest lobbyists get the contract, not necessarily the best contractor or best price.
There are so many common sense solutions to this county budget. As long as we have the questionably elected people who do what they want on a whim, this is what we get. Even the elections department, under Gimenez, doesn't do it's best to insure a fair vote. It goes to whoever is pushing the hardest which are incumbents!
The zero contribution is for employee only, no dependent coverage.
Anybody ever see crabs in a pot? That's what y'all are like. When the heat is on, the crabs will try to get out of the pot. One will get to the edge of the pot and the others will pull him back in.
To the Anon, " I don't make $50,000 a year and I am paying over $500 for my health insurance contribution". Instead of complaining about what others have and you don't have, demand more from your employer or find an employer that subsidizes your health care. I will say though, if you're paying $500/month for individual coverage, you're getting ripped off.
What you don't realize is that many people are paying $1,000, $1,500, or $2,000 per month. That is why many people don't have healthcare. They can't afford it.
The part that is not being reported is that the average employment time for Miami-Dade County employees who make over 100K is almost 19 years.
It takes you a very long time to make over $100k in Miami-Dade County unless you start out as a department Director.
A few years ago, Gimleteye wrote that he pays $1000 per month for health insurance with a $5000 deductible. Free healthcare for all county employees with zero deductible at taxpayer expense is a ridiculous benefit we cannot afford. Why are employees being laid off instead of reining in those benefits?
I don't understand some of you folks. You are anti-government yet you want everybody to be the same. Everybody should earn the same amount of money and pay their own health insurance.
I thought the the county employees pay a percentage of their salary towards insurance whether they use it or not.
I want to go back to the days when government employees were like nonprofit employees. That's when they agreed to work for less money because they wanted to help people.
Now the government pays better than almost everywhere else and the employees whine if they don't get a 5% raise every year or if they are required to make a small contribution to their pensions.
Court assistant 4 makes 93K a year, WHAT?!
No. We were taught when we were young (1950's to 1970's) that to go into public service was an honor. We were taught that public sector employees were paid very low and they were serving their communities. Not anymore. Unions got more powerful and municipal executives got dumber and now public sector workers are becoming multi-millionaires. Now private sector employees have no pay and no benefits and public sector employees have excessive pay and Rolls Royce benefits.
How many of those employees named Diaz are related to each other? My guess is all of them.
Sorry, but expecting people to base opinions on actual facts will not get you far around here
Thanks for posting this. This issue applies to other cities as well. There is the grand misconception that all of these employees are making really big money, working little, and keeping grand offices. However, that is not the case for most government employees. Also, they are large minority populations in these low wage government positions because they feel less discrimination in government employment than the private sector.
To the poster who wrote:
"No. We were taught when we were young (1950's to 1970's) that to go into public service was an honor. We were taught that public sector employees were paid very low and they were serving their communities. Not anymore. Unions got more powerful and municipal executives got dumber and now public sector workers are becoming multi-millionaires. Now private sector employees have no pay and no benefits and public sector employees have excessive pay and Rolls Royce benefits."
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WELL, I GUESS THE DEMOCRATS AND THEIR SOCIALIST AGENDA WON!
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Several years ago the City of Miami firemen were 46 of the 50 highest paid employees at the City of Miami. There were 25+ firemen making over $300,000+ per year. The City was paying 80 cents of every incoming dollar on pay and benefits. In 2007 one of disgraced Mayor Manny Diaz chauffeurs made $285,000. Yup a chauffeur (cop with a badge but not fighting crime) made $285,000 driving around pompous Manny Diaz. Manny Diaz was the same clown who was a salesman for the Marlins Stadium scam.
SAVE MDFR??
Miami-Dade Legislative Item File Number: 100620 Clerk's Official Copy File Number: 100620 File Type: Resolution Status: Before the Board
Version: 0 Reference:R-378-10 Control: Board of County Commissioners
File Name: “PITCH REEL” AND “PILOT EPISODE” Introduced: 3/9/2010
Requester: Miami-Dade Fire and Rescue Department Cost: Final Action: 4/6/2010
Agenda Date: 4/6/2010
Agenda Item Number: 9A9
BODY
2C Media, Inc., a Miami-Dade based company, is currently producing the MDFR Fire Boat series “Danger Coast” which will start airing as a 10 episode series on CMT on April 9, 2010. “Danger Coast” is one of the first nationally televised English language series a commercial network has produced and developed entirely in Miami-Dade County. Nearly all production and post production will remain in Miami-Dade County resulting in a direct and indirect economic impact of $1.5 million dollars. The national exposure allows the department to reach a vast and diverse audience, highlighting MDFR’s initiatives and public safety education to millions across the nation. In late 2009, 2C Media, Inc. contacted MDFR with the concept of developing another television reality series based on the daily operations of the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Venom Response Bureau. After several meetings with representatives from 2C Media, Inc., a proposed production contract was presented to MDFR. The contract seeks approval to develop and film a “sales tape” or “pitch real” for a potential future television series called “Venom One” based on the department’s Venom Response Bureau. The national cable network, Animal Planet has already agreed to participate in the pitch reel, indicating their seriousness in the project. Animal Planet’s other Miami-Dade based series “Animal Cops” continues on the network. 2C Media, Inc. hopes to research and videotape the daily activities of MDFR employees assigned to the Venom Response Bureau and MDFR reserves the right to decide what areas may be recorded. 2C Media, Inc. has advised MDFR that if “Venom One” is developed into a series, THE COUNTY WILL RECEIVE AN HONORARY DONATION.
How much are Revenues for Discovery Communications and 2c media concerning these MDC shows??
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