August 1, 2012, 12:05 AM
The accreditation commission that has threatened to sanction City College of San Francisco has cited the fact that 92 percent of the college’s spending goes to salaries and benefits as a main factor in its financial problems – and community college district officials attribute the high...
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July 24, 2012, 12:05 AM
California workers in Inglewood and Sacramento will join labor advocates across the country at rallies today to support forthcoming legislation by U.S. Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., that would increase the federal minimum wage by $2.55 per hour. Under Miller’s proposal, the minimum...
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July 18, 2012, 12:05 AM
Muni paid thousands of dollars in bonuses to top executives for meeting or exceeding on-time performance goals, even as the agency inflated its on-time rates by as much as 18 percent. The agency's two previous chief executives, Michael Burns and Nathaniel Ford, received the bonuses. Both...
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June 19, 2012, 12:05 AM
More than any other group in California, African Americans stand to gain the most significant lift out of poverty from earning a college degree, according to a new report. Taking a deeper look at data from a study it released in April, the nonprofit Campaign for College Opportunity this month...
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May 22, 2012, 12:05 AM
After recently posting a bid for an executive compensation consultant for the first time in eight years, California State University officials decided late last week to cancel the request for proposals – citing budget concerns. In bid documents posted in March for a three-year contract,...
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March 19, 2012, 12:05 AM
In the first test of the California State University system's recently approved executive compensation policy, the presidents appointed to lead CSU East Bay and CSU Fullerton are slated to each receive the maximum salaries allowable under the new rules. After CSU trustees approved a large...
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February 17, 2012, 12:05 AM
California’s 56 bar pilots provide a vital service, boarding commercial ships as they approach a buoy west of the Golden Gate Bridge and guiding them through dicey Bay Area waters. A giant sandbar in the bay gives bar pilots their name and helps make the zone one of the most treacherous ports...
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January 17, 2012, 12:05 AM
Responding to criticism from the Legislative Analyst’s Office and others, California State University officials have revised a proposed list of peer universities they plan to use to help set pay for campus executives. The new list, provided to California Watch on Thursday, no longer...
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December 5, 2011, 12:05 AM
A former for-profit college CEO who resigned last month after an investigation revealed the company was inflating job placement rates will receive a compensation package worth more than $5 million under the terms of his separation agreement, according to a recent filing with the U.S....
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September 1, 2011, 12:05 AM
Airline pilots are widely seen as having some of the best jobs in America. In reality, pay for pilots has been on the decline for years. Recent salary records show that a rookie first officer on a regional airline flying out of San Francisco International Airport may be paid less than the...
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July 6, 2011, 12:05 AM
The budget Gov. Jerry Brown signed last week is based on optimistic revenue projections and contained a last-minute education bill [PDF] that grants protections for teachers. But if the anticipated revenue doesn't come in, school districts face up to $1.75 billion in cuts at the end...
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April 15, 2011, 12:05 AM
Full professors at Stanford University make on average $39,000 more than their counterparts at UC Berkeley, reinforcing fears about UC's ability to recruit and retain top professors in the face of deep reductions in state support. A full professor at UC Berkeley makes an average of...
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October 25, 2010, 4:23 PM
State Controller John Chiang today made good on a promise to post an online database of salary and benefits for hundreds of thousands of local government employees around the state. So far, the database includes salary and benefit information for nearly 600,000 employees in more than 400...
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