California releases 2010 state employee compensation figures
According to recently released payroll figures, the 10 highest-paid state employees in California each earned more than $500,000 in 2010 - a combined total of $6.2 million, according to Bloomberg.
Seven of the employees were prison doctors or dentists, including the top earner - a chief psychiatrist - whose salary range of $261,000 to $309,000 was approximately tripled by compensation claimed either via bonuses or payouts for unused vacation time or sick days. The psychiatrist, whose name wasn't released, took home a total of more than $838,000 last year, the news source reports.
Nancy Kincaid, spokeswoman for the medical receiver's office, blames a rise in the number of retiring physicians as a contributing factor to the high figures. Upon retiring, employees are often permitted to cash out unused leave and time off for having to work overtime due to staff shortages and forced furloughs, she explained to the news source.
The government compensation figures included more than 256,000 positions in 160 departments, from the Office of Administrative Law to the Department of Fish and Game.
Seven of the employees were prison doctors or dentists, including the top earner - a chief psychiatrist - whose salary range of $261,000 to $309,000 was approximately tripled by compensation claimed either via bonuses or payouts for unused vacation time or sick days. The psychiatrist, whose name wasn't released, took home a total of more than $838,000 last year, the news source reports.
Nancy Kincaid, spokeswoman for the medical receiver's office, blames a rise in the number of retiring physicians as a contributing factor to the high figures. Upon retiring, employees are often permitted to cash out unused leave and time off for having to work overtime due to staff shortages and forced furloughs, she explained to the news source.
The government compensation figures included more than 256,000 positions in 160 departments, from the Office of Administrative Law to the Department of Fish and Game.
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