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发帖数: 1769 | 1 连个救生员都能超过120k，退休金都过100k，而合同工，临时工p都不如，怎么
跟国内那么象呐，那位翻译了给国内的p民看看
Public outrage over lavish government employee compensation and pensions
is becoming more heated as new revelations about excesses seem to crop
up every week. The latest: Newport Beach, California, where some
lifeguards have compensation packages that exceed $200,000 and where
these "civil servants" can retire with lucrative government pensions at
age 50.
Newport Beach has two groups of lifeguards. Seasonal tower lifeguards
cover Newport’s seven miles of beach during the busy summer months.
Part-time seasonal guards make $16 to $22 per hour with no benefits.
They are the young people who man the towers and do the lion’s share of
the rescues. Another group of highly compensated full-time staff work
year-round and seldom, if ever, climb into a tower. According to the
City Manager, the typical Daily Deployment Model in the winter for these
lifeguards is 10 hours per day for four days each week, mainly spent
driving trucks around, painting towers, ordering uniforms and doing
basic office work—none are actually manning lifeguard towers.
Like many communities across California, the city of Newport Beach is
facing the harsh realities of budgeting with less revenue after housing
values and the stock market plummeted. Now the city’s full-time
lifeguard force has finally come under scrutiny. Next week the city
council will decide if cuts are needed to the full-time lifeguard force
where last year the top earner received $211,000 in pay and benefits,
including a $400 sun protection allowance. In 2010 all but one of the
city’s full-time lifeguard staff had annual compensation packages worth
over $120,000.
Not bad pay for a lifeguard - but what makes these jobs most attractive
is the generous retirements. These lifeguards can retire at age 50 with
full medical benefits for life. One recently retired lifeguard, age 51,
receives a government retirement of over $108,000 per year—for the rest
of his life. He will make well over $3 million in retirement if he lives
to age 80. According to the City Manager, a new full-time guard costs
less to hire than what is spent on this one retiree. The city now spends
more taxpayer dollars on retired lifeguards than it does on those who
are working.
Reports of excessive pay and generous pensions have fueled a debate
across the nation over union influence on government spending.
Government unions were able to take full advantage of the good old days
when surpluses were plentiful and the economic future was bright. They
effectively demanded politicians agree to contracts for higher union
wages and benefits. Creating a situation that was simply not sustainable
over the long-term. | a*********g
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