At Least 7 More Bell Employees Earned High Salaries
This banner was put up in front of the Bell Community Center where a council meeting was scheduled for Monday evening.
The city of Bell acknowledged that even more city workers received high salaries, it was reported.
Bell's interim city manager, Pedro Carrillo, said in a news conference that at least seven additional city employees were making more than the average city manager in Los Angeles County, the LA Times reported.
According to LA Times:
Among the highly paid are the director of administrative services, $422,707; director of general services, $421,402; the director of community services, $273,542; business development coordinator, $295,627; and a police captain earning $238,075. The names of the employees were not immediately released.
Carrillo promised very "firm and bold moves" and said officials would launch a study to ensure salaries better reflected workers' positions.
Public outrage over the high salaries triggered many state and local officials to publish the salaries of all workers.
Los Angeles became the largest city in the United States to post the salaries of virtually all its employees online.
LA City Controller Wendy Greuel said the database was posted in response to Bell's salary scandal.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger created a similar web page showing how much top administration officials are paid.
The Web page provides the salaries for senior staff in the governor's office, deputies, agency secretaries, agency undersecretaries and department directors. The vast majority of state employees are not listed on the site.
