A trio of Los Angeles city firefighters boosted their combined earnings in 2016 to $1.36 million, with $974,779 of it coming from overtime pay, according to a new survey.
Salary data from TransparentCalifornia.com notes fire captain Charles Ferrari received $334,655 in overtime, with total earnings of $469,198.
Fire captain James Vlach received $332,583 in overtime, with total earnings of $469,158, and
firefighter Donn Thompson received $307,542 in overtime, with total earnings of $424,913.
The three Fire Department employees received the largest statewide overtime payouts of the more than 550,000 workers surveyed in 2016.
Ferrari, Vlach and Thompson also topped the state’s list in 2015, when more than 2.4 million government workers were surveyed.
Over the past three years, firefighter Thompson has boosted his total earnings to $1,229,504, according to the survey.
The number of workers earning at least $100,000 in overtime pay has increased 760 percent at the Fire Department over the past 5 years, rising from 51 in 2012 to an all-time high of 439 last year.
“The issue is not a lack of solutions. Those have been forthcoming from a coalition of experts, including those from LAFD’s own ranks, for decades. The issue is lack of a political will for the precise reasons an official outlined nearly two decades ago: fear of political retaliation,” Transparent California research director Robert Fellner stated.
The $197 million in overtime pay accounted for 31 percent of the Fire Department’s total budget for 2016, the survey stated.
Transparent California’s full report on overtime pay can be found here.
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