Employee Compensation

Muni Chief Gets Raise To $336K

8,000 SF Employees Take Home Over $100,000 -- And Then Some.

Salary.com Survey Says: You Will Be Poor

Forbes Ranks Top-Earning Celebrity Chefs

SF Gov InAction: Dirk Dirksen alley is back, non-profits pay surprisingly well, and hey - who wants to build a library?

Dismissed Reporter Sues MediaNews Group, Alleges Race Discrimination

A former reporter at the Monterey County Herald has sued the Northern California newspaper and its parent company, MediaNews Group, alleging that he was underpaid and then fired because of his race. MediaNews, headed by press mogul Dean Singleton (pictured), is also a major presence in the Bay Area ... More >>

Paper Trails

A former reporter at the Monterey County Herald has sued the Northern California newspaper and its parent company, MediaNews Group, alleging that he was underpaid and then fired because of his race. MediaNews, headed by press mogul Dean Singleton (pictured), is also a major presence in the Bay Area ... More >>

Public Defender Unapologetic About Playing Budget Chicken with Mayor, Says It's Impossible to Cut His Costs

Public Defender Jeff Adachi has no qualms about refusing to adhere to Gavin Newsom's demands he cut his budgetIn recent weeks, SF Weekly (and others) have covered the increasingly nasty public exchanges between Public Defender Jeff Adachi and the Board of Supervisors and Mayor's Office. In a nutshel ... More >>

But Is It Art? SFAI Students, Riled By School's Move To Drop Nine Tenured Faculty, To Blockade Building.

It doesn't take a Ph.D to interpret the deeper meanings of this mural recently created by SFAI studentsA last-minute announcement went out this morning that students at the San Francisco Art Institute are mad as hell -- and they're not going to take it anymore. Spurred by the February announcement t ... More >>

Flubbers

How Federal Home Loan Banks and their execs exacerbated the banking meltdown.

What Drives Women

How Federal Home Loan Banks and their execs exacerbated the banking meltdown.

Business Conductor

The city needs to stop subsidizing the S.F. Symphony and other snobby arts organizations that cater to the rich.

Controversial police ticketing program gets makeover

The city needs to stop subsidizing the S.F. Symphony and other snobby arts organizations that cater to the rich.

SF Weekly Letters

The city needs to stop subsidizing the S.F. Symphony and other snobby arts organizations that cater to the rich.

SF Weekly Letters

The city needs to stop subsidizing the S.F. Symphony and other snobby arts organizations that cater to the rich.

No Administrator Left Behind

The University of California system is embroiled in a scandal over perks and compensation for some of its highest-paid employees. Are they worth it? Find out where you stand!

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Rewarding Failure

What's really wrong with Muni? For starters, one third of its employees don't show up to work, causing systemwide delays and costing the agency more that $20 million a year in overtime. First in a two-part special report

Take BART, Please

We make Henny Youngman answer hard questions about regional transit and his mother-in-law

Dream Job

Do you like sleeping, eating, shopping, reading, TV watching, Internet surfing, large amounts of overtime pay, and small amounts of actual work? You may have a future as a dispatcher for the San Francisco Fire Department.

Willie's Wild Ride

The Transport Workers Union contract with Muni is up for renewal, and TWU boss Larry Martin says that anybody who wants to roll back the union's cush work rules, lucrative salary structure, and handsome trust fund is a "racist" and can go to hell. Meet t

City Lawyers Vote Themselves Two Percent Pay Cut -- Again

The union representing the lawyers staffing the offices of San Francisco's City Attorney, District Attorney, Public Defender, and others yesterday announced its membership has voted by a two-to-one margin to approve a wage concession in which attorneys forfeit two percent of their yearly salaries.Je ... More >>

What Did SEIU Hope to Gain Via Quixotic Quest to Change Newsom's Mind?

​As SF Weekly and others reported yesterday, the SEIU convinced eight supervisors to borrow nearly $2 million -- from funds already earmarked for workers' salaries -- to stave off layoffs, pay cuts, and job reassignments in the Department of Public Health. And, because San Francisco's governmental ... More >>

City: Nurses Will Be Paid More Here Even With Slashed Salaries

City nursing assistants will soon be paid far less to deal with the R.P. McMurphys of the world​The city of San Francisco's response to hundreds of nurses who stand to lose perhaps $14,000 a year in compensation: You don't know how good you've got it. The Department of Human Resources is circulati ... More >>

Will Hard Times Bring Out the Progressives' Inner Elsbernd?

Does pension reform seem like a good idea now? ​It doesn't seem likely that many elected members of San Francisco's government want to stand up and bellow about how pension reform is bunk -- they're just fine with the way things are. At least that's what Supervisor Sean Elsbernd is counting on. Yo ... More >>

Will City Manage to *Lose* Money on Pension 'Reform'?

It's like gaining weight on a diet...​You'd think even San Francisco wouldn't manage to formulate a "solution" for pension reform that actually costs millions more in both the long-run and short-run. Right? Right? Well -- apparently not. We've written a bit about Supervisor Sean Elsbernd and his p ... More >>

Controller Confirms Amendment to Pension 'Reform' Plan Would *Cost* City Millions

San Francisco finds innovative new ways to lose money...​We've written a bit about Supervisor Sean Elsbernd's proposed Charter Amendment, which would save the city a modest bundle by altering San Francisco's pension system. We couldn't help but notice, however, that an amendment Supervisor Eric ... More >>

Lazer Sword Releases New Split EP

​Lazer Sword, the DJ/producer duo that was once based in our fine city, is now an East and West Coast outfit split between San Francisco and New York. The group's two members, Lando Kal and Low Limit , take things to the international level with the release of a split EP on Glasgow's Numbers label ... More >>

Union Boss' Answer to Public Sector Vastly Outearning Private: Get Better Union!

​This morning, the San Francisco Chronicle reported the fact that one-third of the city's employees make $100,000 or more each year. All the way at the bottom of the story came the small fact that those working in in the city's public sector earn an average of 20 percent more than those in the pri ... More >>

Ron Dellums Breaks Promise to Take Pay Cut

Even Democratic Socialists like money. ​How's this for great leadership: In June, Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums publicly promised to take a 10 percent pay cut, then privately kept collecting his full pay. His excuse: It was just a really inconvenient time to make less money. According to news reports, ... More >>

Is Progressive Supes' Muni Amendment Just a Bargaining Chit?

Like this old train, many elements of yesterday's sweeping Muni charter amendment were things we've seen before...​The Charter Amendment yesterday introduced by a quartet of progressive supervisors would essentially tear apart the way the Municipal Transportation Agency is run and sew it back toge ... More >>

Is Gavin Newsom Attempting to Gut Pension Reform?

Gavin Newsom is accused of pulling a fast one. But will the supes give a damn? ​The organization Public Defender Jeff Adachi formed to push his "Smart Reform" pension measure today sent out a frantic call to arms, claiming Mayor Gavin Newsom is attempting to subvert the charter amendment before vo ... More >>

Jeff Adachi for mayor!

Gavin Newsom is accused of pulling a fast one. But will the supes give a damn? ​The organization Public Defender Jeff Adachi formed to push his "Smart Reform" pension measure today sent out a frantic call to arms, claiming Mayor Gavin Newsom is attempting to subvert the charter amendment before vo ... More >>

Police Overtime So Lax as to Seemingly Invite Abuse, Audit Says

Plan: we'll roll it all into a ball then take whatever we want​The San Francisco Police Department fails to adequately keep track of $114 million in overtime pay collected by officers, allowed cops to take home more overtime pay than permitted by department policy, and even overpaid officers' unif ... More >>

Report of Chinatown Worker Abuse Echoes 2004 Film

Our favorite morsel from the Web. Last week press reports referenced the study by the Chinese Progressive Association documenting worker abuses in Chinatown restaurants. The study -- "Check, Please!" - lacked the bubbly blonde Leslie Sbrocco (host of the KQED viewer review show with a similar nam ... More >>

Six unexpected things S.F. city employees receive bonuses for

Our favorite morsel from the Web. Last week press reports referenced the study by the Chinese Progressive Association documenting worker abuses in Chinatown restaurants. The study -- "Check, Please!" - lacked the bubbly blonde Leslie Sbrocco (host of the KQED viewer review show with a similar nam ... More >>

Premium pay nets city workers millions in bonuses for just doing their jobs

Our favorite morsel from the Web. Last week press reports referenced the study by the Chinese Progressive Association documenting worker abuses in Chinatown restaurants. The study -- "Check, Please!" - lacked the bubbly blonde Leslie Sbrocco (host of the KQED viewer review show with a similar nam ... More >>

Hey Rich Assholes: Are You Shorting Your Nanny? Tell It to the Judge

Don't even think about shorting her...​The cost of living for the Meg Whitmans of the world might become much more expensive. California Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D- San Francisco) announced today that he is introducing legislation to improve the lives of domestic workers in the state.The bill, whi ... More >>

List: Why S.F. School Board Members Deserve Raises

Don't even think about shorting her...​The cost of living for the Meg Whitmans of the world might become much more expensive. California Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D- San Francisco) announced today that he is introducing legislation to improve the lives of domestic workers in the state.The bill, whi ... More >>

City Overtime $40 Million More than Projected

And worth every penny.​The city will spend $40 million more on overtime pay than its most recent projection, according to a new controller's report.That's bad. This is worse: Only one city employee -- a Muni secretary -- had her excessive pay labeled "non-exempt." The rest of the city's lavishly p ... More >>

Never Mind the City's Budget Crisis: Supervisors, Mayor to Get Pay Raise

Pay raises won't help close the budget gap​Closing a multimillion-dollar budget deficit is no easy task -- and handing out raises to elected officials will only make it that much harder. The Examiner reports today that in the face of a $300 million budget crisis, the Civil Service Commission has r ... More >>

Which Pol Will Forgo a Pay Raise?

Or don't take the money and run​Yesterday, SF Weekly told you about the amazing news that your elected officials were looking forward to getting pay raises -- despite the city's $300 million budget deficit. We wondered whether this would upset voters, who will experience yet another round of unfor ... More >>

Pension Reform: Jeff Adachi Says Mayor's Proposal Doesn't Add Up

The new face of pension reform?​Mayor Ed Lee announced his long-awaited pension reform proposal today, partnering with Supervisor Sean Elsbernd to introduce an amendment to the city charter that aims to defray San Francisco's mounting liabilities for employees' retirement benefits. Lee's goal all ... More >>

Leland Yee: Drivers Could Park Three Days for Free at the Cost of Nat Ford's Severance Package

Wants three days of free parking ​Last week, City Attorney Dennis Herrera took what seems to be the first real potshot at a fellow mayoral candidate when he publicly said that he has better things to do than fight with Rush Limbaugh and ban shark fin soup. Anyone who has even barely scanned the he ... More >>