Top paid LA lifeguards earn up to $392,000 annually: report

[Dashinka 24,732]

Interesting.  Is the top earner David Hasselhoff?

 

Top paid LA lifeguards earn up to $392,000 annually: report

 

Life’s a beach for these California lifeguards.

The highest-paid Los Angeles lifeguards earn up to $392,000 annually — and dozens of others rake in more than $200,000 a year, according to an investigation by Forbes.

Seven LA County lifeguards earned more than $300,000 in taxpayer dough by tapping into overtime pay in 2019, the latest year available, Forbes found.

Meanwhile, 82 of the sun-soaked public employees made more than $200,000 during the same year, according to the outlet, which cited data obtained by its own auditors.

 

https://nypost.com/2021/03/28/top-paid-la-lifeguards-earn-up-392000-annually/

[Steeleballz 7,550]

 

   I have to say, if I ever need a life guard, I don't really care how much money they get paid. They are worth it.

[laylalex 7,300]

Blame a system that enables (and may even demand) excessive overtime instead of hiring to adequately meet its labor needs with the appropriate number of hourly workers. Sure, there will always need to be the flexibility of overtime available because people get sick, they have family obligations, they quit without warning, but numbers like that mean something is wrong with staffing. 

 

I also try to get all my Los Angeles-related news from the NY Post, lol.  To be fair, the NYT is terrible about this, at least a couple of articles a year about "I moved to California and OMG the pizza sucks and there's so much traffic and there's kombucha on tap and people do yoga everywhere and someone asked me if I had had a B vitamin injection recently."  It's a running joke out here. The funny thing in my experience is there's so much "LA sucks" energy coming from New Yorkers but honestly, nobody here thinks too much about living out there.

Edited March 31, 2021 by laylalex

[Dashinka 24,732]

24 minutes ago, laylalex said:

Blame a system that enables (and may even demand) excessive overtime instead of hiring to adequately meet its labor needs with the appropriate number of hourly workers. Sure, there will always need to be the flexibility of overtime available because people get sick, they have family obligations, they quit without warning, but numbers like that mean something is wrong with staffing. 

 

I also try to get all my Los Angeles-related news from the NY Post, lol.  To be fair, the NYT is terrible about this, at least a couple of articles a year about "I moved to California and OMG the pizza sucks and there's so much traffic and there's kombucha on tap and people do yoga everywhere and someone asked me if I had had a B vitamin injection recently."  It's a running joke out here. The funny thing in my experience is there's so much "LA sucks" energy coming from New Yorkers but honestly, nobody here thinks too much about living out there.

In the end, it is cheaper to pay the overtime than to bring in more people with large fixed costs related to benefits.  FWIW, I got the initial story from the Armstrong and Getty program, and then searched on the story and the NYPost came up.

Edited March 31, 2021 by Dashinka

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,378]

I doubt its rank and file lifeguards. Probably Heads of depts etc. News ever tells the whole story

[TBoneTX 45,918]

There, $300,000 probably buys them a crackerbox-sized apartment and Ramen for meals.

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

TBH with you after seeing how packed some of the beaches are during the summer in SoCal this is not surprising and they deserve it

[Steeleballz 7,550]

13 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

There, $300,000 probably buys them a crackerbox-sized apartment and Ramen for meals.

 

   A good friend of mine moved back to California earlier this year. She is making almost twice as much as she made here but she thought she would end up paying a lot more than double in expenses. Federal taxes will hurt on the double salary too. The weather is nicer though, and they are closer to friends and family. Guess it depends on what you are looking for. You certainly can't just go by salary alone when it's a place like California.