The revelations of sky-high salaries paid to city officials in the small, working-class city of Bell have led to increased scrutiny of the wages of other city and county officials.
A new analysis by the Los Angeles Times finds that the average pay for a city manager in LA County is $210,000, far below the nearly $800,000 that Bell was paying. Most managers made between $160,000 and $270,000 a year, regardless of the size of the city, with Bradbury paying the least at $106,600 and Santa Monica at the high end with $315,000. Los Angeles, where the mayor plays a stronger role in overseeing the city, also paid less than average.
Some other cities of interest:
- Bell Gardens: $246,681 (city manager Steve Simonian took a 2.5 percent pay cut last month)
- Bellflower: $200,495
- Carson: $259,378
- Downey: $222,266
- Hawthorne: $177,643
- Huntington Park: $205,123
- Lakewood: $240,595
- LA City: $262,000 (subjected to furloughs)
- Lynwood: $225,482
- Paramount: $178,457
- South Gate: $181,792
The cities of Compton, Gardena and Inglewood are among those that have not yet returned the Times’s request for information.
See the full list here. You can also see a list of the salaries of all LA city employees here.
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