Saturday, April 19, 2014

Pension Envy in Torrance, CA

Torrance, CA skyline -- Woo of Irvine
City Councilmember at Pat Furey has accused Torrance residents and private businesses of "pension envy" in regards to the salaries and benefits which police, fire, and public works officials are taking in from the city's coffers.

Is there really any reason for people to worry about the costs of shoring up public employees' retirement?

Click on this link here, and you will find a list of Torrance public employees, with their salaries, overtime, benefits, and the overall compensation.

Here's a list of the ten highest income earners in 2012:

NameJob titleBase payOvertime payOther pay Total
benefits
Total pay &
benefits
DUMAIS, DAVID A. Deputy Fire Chief
Torrance, 2012
$166,730.98$0.00$127,568.03$133,858.46$428,157.47
NEU, JOHN J. Police Chief
Torrance, 2012
$236,516.80$0.00$22,889.25$154,280.58$413,686.63
RACOWSCHI, WILLIAM FIre Chief
Torrance, 2012
$223,745.61$0.00$48,297.81$132,780.21$404,823.63
KREAGER, KEVIN W. Police Captain
Torrance, 2012
$164,606.40$0.00$91,684.65$140,913.04$397,204.09
MATSUDA, MARK A. Police Captain
Torrance, 2012
$157,206.40$0.00$90,734.47$134,769.21$382,710.08
JEZULIN, MICHAEL C. Police Lieutenant
Torrance, 2012
$123,281.68$51,946.28$84,199.35$123,049.93$382,477.24
JACKSON, LEROY J. Manager, City
Torrance, 2012
$268,382.41$0.00$38,986.80$66,896.73$374,265.94
HANSEN, MICHAEL A. Fire Chief, Battalion
Torrance, 2012
$103,405.12$50,740.35$100,680.76$109,984.18$364,810.41
FELLOWS III, JOHN L. Attorney, City
Torrance, 2012
$259,209.60$0.00$29,976.19$65,267.94$354,453.73
KOZAK, CHRISTOPHER L. Police Sergeant
Torrance, 2012
$107,619.20$54,785.14$76,649.92$109,869.35$348,923.61

QWow! That;s a lot of money for total compensation, just in 2012!

Here is a list of ten high income earners in the city of Torrance from 2012:
NameJob titleBase payOvertime payOther pay Total
benefits
Total pay &
benefits
HENDERSON, JON R. Fire Captain
Torrance, 2012
$83,911.33$38,667.12$68,669.29$94,200.23$285,447.97
EDMONDS, DON S. Police Lieutenant
Torrance, 2012
$118,164.08$17,654.79$42,716.34$104,398.95$282,934.16
WILMOTH, MICHAEL W. Police Sergeant
Torrance, 2012
$107,619.20$0.00$79,824.43$95,406.02$282,849.65
PETERSON, RANDY J. Fire Captain - 40 HR
Torrance, 2012
$99,561.28$2,219.76$86,872.37$93,808.92$282,462.33
THOMPSON, KEITH E. Police Sergeant
Torrance, 2012
$107,619.20$13,390.63$59,978.00$101,082.15$282,069.98
Not Provided Police Lieutenant
Torrance, 2012
$118,679.29$14,404.84$46,570.33$101,259.59$280,914.05
RASNICK, RYAN W. Fire Fighter
Torrance, 2012
$63,073.92$84,309.05$56,847.67$75,548.50$279,779.14
BESTE, ROBERT J. Public Works Director
Torrance, 2012
$209,331.20$0.00$20,471.74$49,749.33$279,552.27
Not Provided Police Sergeant
Torrance, 2012
$100,056.00$44,615.08$42,463.96$91,065.93$278,200.97
RUDOLPH, JAMES S. Police Sergeant-1.5Yrs Lat Crd
Torrance, 2012
$105,019.25$34,388.49$52,895.08$85,756.92$278,059.74

Can you imagine a fire captain taking in nearly $300k? Then again, anyone looking over this list could respond: these individual supervise their departments, so they should be compensated in such a manner.

Here is a list of the fire captains  and their total compensation in other South Bay communities:

Another fire captain in Torrance:

FEWELL, JOSEPH J. Fire Captain
Torrance, 2012
$84,506.24$44,536.78$84,504.71$99,692.28$313,240.01
 El Segundo
K. SMITH FIRE CHIEF
El Segundo, 2012
$231,840.00$0.00$34,690.00Not provided$266,530.00
Hermosa Beach records were not available on the website. The website creators are requesting that anyone interested submit a public records request. No fire chiefs were listed tor the Peninsula cities, either, as no fire chief is designate for those cities.

Manhattan Beach

HAFDELL, SCOTT R. Fire Captain/Paramedic
Manhattan Beach, 2012
$129,468.04$115,047.11$32,300.66$76,050.27$352,866.08
MUTH, JAMES R. Fire Captain/Paramedic
Manhattan Beach, 2012
$129,468.04$99,180.53$37,335.49$76,938.89$342,922.95
O'BRIEN, TIMOTHY S. Fire Captain/Paramedic
Manhattan Beach, 2012
$129,468.04$97,036.79$35,644.72$76,820.85$338,970.40

Redondo Beach

DAN MADRIGAL Fire Chief
Redondo Beach, 2012
$158,976.95$0.00$128,940.09$100,373.45$388,290.49

Quite a contrast, isn't it?

Now, back to the City of Torrance.

MILLEA, ROBERT J. Fire Captain
Torrance, 2012
$84,506.24$24,746.03$72,596.95$94,870.91$276,720.13
KAHN, SCOTT A. Fire Captain
Torrance, 2012
$84,506.24$22,818.99$77,074.40$92,016.28$276,415.91
ESTRADA, MICHAEL D. Police Sergeant-1.5Yrs Lat Crd
Torrance, 2012
$105,019.24$32,088.93$45,060.45$94,163.56$276,332.18
BONE, RONALD R. Fire Captain
Torrance, 2012
$84,506.24$27,755.15$70,375.95$93,455.60$276,092.94
TSAO, ERIC E. Finance Director
Torrance, 2012
$192,587.20$0.00$28,332.62$53,762.89$274,682.71
CONDON, KEVIN J. Fire Captain
Torrance, 2012
$84,506.24$21,679.70$75,218.69$92,016.29$273,420.92
HUNT, PATRICK J. Police Sergeant-2Yrs Lat Cred
Torrance, 2012
$104,000.00$20,100.00$54,781.22$93,349.96$272,231.18
UNDERWOOD, MARK M. Police Lieutenant
Torrance, 2012
$107,712.83$5,952.11$60,825.08$96,557.62$271,047.64
STROCK, JAMES M. Fire Captain
Torrance, 2012
$84,506.24$30,903.64$63,139.82$89,091.56$267,641.26
SCHNEIDER, HOWARD R. Fire Captain
Torrance, 2012
$84,506.24$22,569.53$68,511.36$91,896.33$267,483.46
HARTLEY, LORNE M. Fire Fighter
Torrance, 2012
$63,073.92$61,248.11$64,669.01$77,549.27$266,540.31
CARTER, KEVIN M. Fire Captain
Torrance, 2012
$84,506.24$26,362.58$65,856.68$88,658.08$265,383.58
TITIRIGA, JAMES A. Police Lieutenant
Torrance, 2012
$105,019.28$401.40$61,060.81$97,951.77$264,433.26
STIEFEL, OTTO P. Fire Captain
Torrance, 2012
$84,506.24$36,976.89$55,654.84$87,245.90$264,383.87
O'STEEN, BRIAN K. Police Sergeant
Torrance, 2012
$105,019.27$13,957.76$55,847.07$88,954.90$263,779.00
GARVER, DUSTY R. Police Officer
Torrance, 2012
$91,852.80$35,521.22$53,448.24$81,128.07$261,950.33
HODKINSON, PAUL W. Fire Captain
Torrance, 2012
$84,506.24$18,079.91$69,907.94$88,093.59$260,587.68
MCGEE, MARTIN J. Police Sergeant
Torrance, 2012
$105,019.33$20,588.61$39,083.32$94,321.26$259,012.52
MC ATEE, TIMOTHY J. Fire Engineer
Torrance, 2012
$73,003.84$35,568.79$67,188.69$82,812.97$258,574.29
Not Provided Police Officer
Torrance, 2012
$91,852.80$37,604.28$52,023.88$75,698.02$257,178.98
Not Provided Police Sergeant
Torrance, 2012
$107,619.20$6,356.26$55,190.62$88,006.66$257,172.74
DOBINE, JASON S. Fire Captain
Torrance, 2012
$84,506.24$21,943.31$73,973.54$75,906.19$256,329.28
TREMENTOZZI, JOHN B. Fire Captain
Torrance, 2012
$84,506.24$16,647.52$67,443.83$87,218.70$255,816.29
FRIEDMAN, TAD M. Fire Fighter
Torrance, 2012
$63,073.92$51,228.20$61,767.24$79,050.00$255,119.36
ALDRICH, THOMAS I. Police Officer
Torrance, 2012
$94,140.80$6,835.66$60,778.63$93,359.79$255,114.88
SOLORZANO, PAUL J. Police Sergeant-2Yrs Lat Cred
Torrance, 2012
$91,852.80$38,606.04$45,189.39$79,041.68$254,689.91
Not Provided Police Officer
Torrance, 2012
$94,140.80$267.32$66,450.28$93,344.36$254,202.76
MILLER, ALEC C. Fire Captain
Torrance, 2012
$84,410.47$41,656.16$45,227.41$82,197.05$253,491.09
BACTAT, JEREMY M. Fire Captain
Torrance, 2012
$73,003.86$27,804.51$67,722.32$83,480.37$252,011.06
MORENO, DANNY E. Police Sergeant
Torrance, 2012
$100,761.65$19,967.02$48,809.14$82,382.95$251,920.76
MINTON, MARK S. Fire Engineer
Torrance, 2012
$73,003.84$34,354.52$62,434.27$82,025.41$251,818.04
LARA, ROBERT L. Police Sergeant-2Yrs Lat Cred
Torrance, 2012
$107,619.20$2,180.05$41,978.59$99,851.04$251,628.88
AHMAD, FAREED Police Officer-1 Yr Lat. Credt
Torrance, 2012
$84,777.60$54,355.43$42,286.10$70,123.10$251,542.23
TURRENTINE, SCOTT R. Police Sergeant
Torrance, 2012
$105,019.31$7,990.07$45,879.41$92,242.28$251,131.07
STOVALL, KELLY S. Police Officer-1.5 Yr Lat Cred
Torrance, 2012
$93,084.80$25,190.67$41,498.45$91,132.41$250,906.33
HUDSON, BRIAN T. Fire Captain - 40 Hr
Torrance, 2012
$84,506.24$21,182.95$61,126.28$83,860.50$250,675.97
STEWART, RODNEY B. Fire Fighter
Torrance, 2012
$63,073.92$63,762.45$52,829.49$70,767.04$250,432.90
BAADEN, MICHAEL G. Fire Captain
Torrance, 2012
$73,003.84$29,889.36$61,679.43$84,748.34$249,320.97
SUCH, PATRICK L. Police Sergeant
Torrance, 2012
$107,619.20$5,503.64$40,296.90$94,602.96$248,022.70
CAMERON, SCOTT A. Police Sergeant-1.5Yrs Lat Crd
Torrance, 2012
$107,619.20$3,608.87$43,731.43$92,416.01$247,375.51
SCOTT, STUART M. Police Officer
Torrance, 2012
$91,852.80$108,992.44$56,367.45$88,572.13$345,784.82
FISHER, CHARLES E. Police Officer
Torrance, 2012
$83,491.20$41,022.56$42,983.29$77,565.94$245,062.99
GARVER, DUSTY R. Police Officer
Torrance, 2012
$91,852.80$35,521.22$53,448.24$81,128.07$261,950.33
MAESTRI, HAROLD A. Police Officer
Torrance, 2012
$94,140.80$44,871.06$68,504.11$91,747.14$299,263.11
BRADLEY, HOWELL J. Fire Fighter
Torrance, 2012
$63,073.92$40,599.48$34,698.81$64,389.42$202,761.63

CHAO, SAMUEL H.
Fire Fighter
Torrance, 2012
$63,073.92$35,772.44$40,027.19$63,676.09$202,549.64

6 comments:

  1. Looks to me that fired schoolteacher Art Schaper is pretty envious of working men and women in Torrance!

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  2. "Looks to me that fired schoolteacher Art Schaper is pretty envious of working men and women in Torrance! "

    Repost the reproach. More personal attacks - I am honored. Are you mad, Jim?

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  3. These figures are pretty shocking. It goes right along with the big government unions out of control salary crisis that we are seeing every day across this country. OF COURSE, they have boosted themselves up by bouncing off of each other "she did it, I can do it too" mentality, even when the first act was wrong.

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  4. You do realize that all three candidates for Mayor have voted exactly the same on ratifying the employee contracts? In fact, they all voted two weeks ago to ratify two contracts... not a word from Brewer - literally.

    Its just a campaign issue. If you really think he is telling the truth that he is going to reform them, then you are lost. Brewer is Scotto's guy... and we all know how well Scotto has reformed pensions too.

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  5. I heard Tom Brewer actively sought the endorsements of both Torrance POA and Torrance Firefighters Association, as well as the huge Los Angeles County Federation of Labor AFL-CIO. It wasn't until they decided to endorse one of his opponents that he was suddenly anti-union. I'd rather back somebody who is proud of their endorsements than somebody who is crying over spoiled grapes.

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    1. Alex See is a democrat backed liberal Republican. Aurelio Mattucci and Clint Paulson are independents. Lelani is an establishment Republican. Brewer is a racist. Everyone in town knows. Maybe that is why Mayor Scotto backs Brewer. Did you know Mayor Scotto attended a Sheriff Joe event at the Torrance Doubletree Hotel? That was put on by the good old boy's network! Or the stupid right-wing bible thumpers!

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