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Employee Compensation

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2012

    How Much Can You Earn in the Restaurant Industry?

    ​One of the top three questions I get comes from chefs, line cooks, bartenders, and servers has to be, "Who's hiring?" "We're always looking for great help," said manager Christie Ajakie, of G&B Oyster Bar, the subject of this week's review. "Even if we're fully staffed, if someone is a g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2012

    Broward County Attorney Is Highest-Paid County Employee in the State (and Other Salary Info)

    ​No county employee is paid more in the state of Florida than Broward County Attorney Joni Armstrong Coffey, according to information compiled by a new open-government website.FloridaOpenGov.org put together a ton of information regarding state and county spending, as well as payroll and revenue i ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 8, 2011

    Not the Bill Murray Version...

    ​No county employee is paid more in the state of Florida than Broward County Attorney Joni Armstrong Coffey, according to information compiled by a new open-government website.FloridaOpenGov.org put together a ton of information regarding state and county spending, as well as payroll and revenue i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2011

    Records Show Miami Mavericks High Teachers Paid Peanuts, Less Than $5K a Year

    ​State records show that teachers at two Mavericks High public charter schools in Miami-Dade County earned less than $5,000 a year in 2010 and that many did not receive benefits.According to records submitted to the Florida Department of Education, 14 teachers at the Homestead campus of Mavericks ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 24, 2011

    Give Thanks for Dada

    ​State records show that teachers at two Mavericks High public charter schools in Miami-Dade County earned less than $5,000 a year in 2010 and that many did not receive benefits.According to records submitted to the Florida Department of Education, 14 teachers at the Homestead campus of Mavericks ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2011

    Marco Rubio and Florida University Salaries: There Are Apps for That

    astriker.comJesus, an iPhone kind of guy.​If the youngsters out there need something a little more high-brow than a fart-noise application for their iPhones, there are now apps for that.Sen. Marco Rubio announced the release of the aptly named "U.S. Senator Marco Rubio" application for the iPhone, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2011

    Florida's Jobs Situation: What Rick Scott Won't Tell You

    ​Gov. Rick Scott has been proudly touting that Florida has created the second-most jobs in the country (behind Texas) since he took office, but here's what he won't tell you: Those new jobs suck.More specifically, since the governor took office in January, Florida workers have had lower hourly wag ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2011

    Florida Teachers Union Hops on the "Sue Rick Scott" Train

    menwithfoilhats.com​In the fourth recent lawsuit targeted at policies of Gov. Rick Scott, the Florida Education Association is now suing over a 3 percent pay cut to the salaries of teachers and other school workers.According to a news release from the union, the lawsuit was entered today in circui ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    Florida Public School Teachers' Salaries Among Lowest In The Nation

    ​Yesterday the Sun-Sentinel ran a story about how some painters and grass cutters who work for the Broward County School District make more money than highly educated teachers with decades of experience. Well, it may get worse. The Florida Center for Fiscal and Economic Policy released its State o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2010

    Lauderdale Officer Resigns After Video of Arrest Triggers Investigation

    Jeff Overcash, the Fort Lauderdale Police officer who arrested Brennan Hamilton, resigned Tuesday, one day after giving a statement in an Internal Affairs investigation involving his arrest of Brennan Hamilton. That arrest that was caught on tape by Hamilton's girlfriend -- that's the video above.

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2010

    Broward Health Has Cure for Recession (It's Gonna Cost You)

    Flickr: Netfalls​In these times of health-care gouging, we can hardly blame middle-class families for skipping an annual checkup or for hoping that the pain, the nausea, the whooping cough will just go away on its own. Because who can afford to get sick?For Broward Health executives, physicians, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    AIG's Chief Executive: Too Much Time in the Boca Sun?

    Flickr: mutineermagazineBenmosche​In return for taxpayers' massive bailout of insurance giant AIG, you would think we'd be enjoying a measure of contrition right now from the corporation's board of directors, as well as from the greedhead executives and traders who did their part throwing the nati ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2009

    State Sen. Aronberg Going After Contractors' Salaries

    It could be a well-timed move to make him look like a crimefighting hero (it comes conveniently at the very same time that he's running for state Attorney General) but regardless, it's pretty cool that State Senator Dave Aronberg (D-Greenacres) is taking public officials to task for letting private ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2009

    It's Time to Ditch DROP

    I'm speaking of the Deferred Retirement Option Program that made such a lucrative payout to Hallandale Beach City Manager Mike Good. He's not the only public official getting rich from this excessively generous policy. In editorials yesterday and last Sunday, the Orlando Sentinel lists officials who ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2009

    Earl Rynerson's Persistence Palin-esque

    We have never seen Earl Rynerson shoot a moose from a helicopter or put lipstick on a pig, but the local businessman reminds us of deposed veep candidate Sarah Palin if only because he simply won't leave the limelight. He may have lost the election for Fort Lauderdale mayor in February (to longtime ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2009

    UPDATED: Bloody Greed: District Drops Community Blood Centers

    The South Broward Drainage District voted yesterday to drop its blood drive and look for a new blood company. Why? Because board members were fed up with the outrageous salaries being paid to top officer at the "non-profit," monopolistic, and heavily political Community Blood Centers ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2009

    Salary Freeze At Tribune Co., Sun-Sentinel

    The Tribune Co., whose 10 newspapers include the Sun-Sentinel, Orlando Sentinel, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, and Los Angeles Times, yesterday announced a salary freeze for 2009. It affects all non-union employees (for the small percentage of union employees, "the issue will b ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 5, 2009

    An Architect of His Own Fortune

    The Tribune Co., whose 10 newspapers include the Sun-Sentinel, Orlando Sentinel, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, and Los Angeles Times, yesterday announced a salary freeze for 2009. It affects all non-union employees (for the small percentage of union employees, "the issue will b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2008

    Bad News For Ex-Sun Sentinel Employees?

    Look, I don't know exactly what this means, but I'm blatantly parroting a Tribune-related post from LA Observed that ran on the other side of the continent. LA-O found this passage in Tribune's bankruptcy filings: How are severance payments affected? All ongoing severance paym ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2008

    Post: No Holiday Party Or Raises for $65,000-plus employees

    In what might be called a progressive move, the Palm Beach Post is giving employees at the company who make $65,000 and less a 2 percent raise this year. Those making more than that are out of luck; they'll see no increase. Also on the chopping block: Holiday parties, which will get no funding this ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2008

    Michael Satz's $100,000 Club

    I was bored so I thought I'd compile the list of all the people at the State Attorney's Office who make $100,000 or more. In light of the recent pay cuts and furloughs, I thought it might be interesting. In all, 27 of Michael Satz's 487 employees have reached triple digits, with a quartet of trusted ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 25, 2008

    Newsflash: Broward Prosecutors Get Pay Cut

    I was bored so I thought I'd compile the list of all the people at the State Attorney's Office who make $100,000 or more. In light of the recent pay cuts and furloughs, I thought it might be interesting. In all, 27 of Michael Satz's 487 employees have reached triple digits, with a quartet of trusted ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2008

    McClatchy (Miami Herald) Freezes Pay

    I was bored so I thought I'd compile the list of all the people at the State Attorney's Office who make $100,000 or more. In light of the recent pay cuts and furloughs, I thought it might be interesting. In all, 27 of Michael Satz's 487 employees have reached triple digits, with a quartet of trusted ... More >>

  • News

    May 8, 2008

    Bleeding Dollars

    A former Broward hospital CEO's trail of dubious expenses is just a drip in the bucket

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2007

    Bloggy Weather

    A former Broward hospital CEO's trail of dubious expenses is just a drip in the bucket

  • Calendar

    September 20, 2007

    Crüe Cut

    Vince Neil is all that Remains

  • News

    June 14, 2007

    Nova to Workers: Drop Dead

    Janitors go jobless for months, and students don't give a damn

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2006

    Wednesday Run-Up

    Janitors go jobless for months, and students don't give a damn

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2006

    How Much Do You Make?

    Janitors go jobless for months, and students don't give a damn

  • News

    April 1, 2004

    The Jewish Card

    Give me my job back or I'll call the Anti-Defamation League, you anti-Semite!

  • News

    December 14, 2000

    Stage Fright

    Musicians of the Florida Philharmonic were none too pleased by the settlement of this fall's strike

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