[Just The News] The Golden Horseshoe is a weekly designation from Just the News intended to highlight egregious examples of wasteful taxpayer spending by the government. The award is named for the horseshoe-shaped toilet seats for military airplanes that cost the Pentagon a whopping $640 each back in the 1980s.
This week, our award is going to Los Angeles County government in California for paying exceedingly high salaries to hundreds of city lifeguards, costing L.A. taxpayers ten of millions of dollars.
The Cabinet Secretaries of the United States of America each earn a salary around $200,000 per year. The top 15 lifeguards in L.A., however, earn closer to $300,000 per year — and some are paid almost $400,000.
A new report from OpenTheBooks.com, profiles the highest earning members of the Los Angeles lifeguard brigade throughout fiscal 2019. A man with the title of "Assistant Chief Lifeguard" made a taxpayer-funded salary of $391,971, including more than $60,000 in non-benefit "perks." |