"Ninety-eight LA lifeguards earned at least $200,000 and 20 made between $300,000 and $510,283."
Auditors at the OpenTheBook Substack have revealed the staggering amounts earned by Los Angeles lifeguards, one lifeguard captain earning a little over half-a-mill, a hundred gees more than the beloved and transformative US president Joe Biden.
Thirty-seven lifeguards made between $50,000 and $247,000 in overtime alone.
The OpenTheBooks Substack is a pretty wild project, existing because, “We believe transparency is transformational. Using forensic auditing and open records, we hold government accountable. In 2021, we filed 47,000 FOIA requests and successfully captured $12 trillion government expenditures: federal spending; 49 of 50 state checkbooks; and 25 million public employee salary and pension records from 50,000 public bodies across America.”
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I think you’re saying BeachGrit has done an article about the multi-millionaire (billionaire?) owners/CEOs of Rip Curl (which used slaves to make its products), Quiksilver, etc. I’m not sure what to search the site for. Maybe “boycott Rip Curl,” or “buy your clothing at the cheapest place (Walmart?) since it’s all made in the same factories anyway”? Or “shop your local thrift store”?
Just under David Hasselhoff and Pam.
WTF. I am doing something (I mean a lot) wrong. All they do is drive around on the beach (checking out ass)with there squeaky clean red Tacomas.
Gosh. I had no idea that infidelity was such a major issue there.
Oh wait…
I thought you said WIFE guard!
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Ohhhhh dear.
I do jest, of course.
Lifeguards clear the beaches of Java East & West Indo cause the two women are in the water…maybe?
Women arent allowed to do stuff in Islam, it makes a christian look like racist mysoginistic lefty wing type
Men are firmly in charge.
The girks here would have meltdowns if subjected
Public servants and life savers! And well paid! I think there will be a few more college kids looking towards life saving in LA! Beats pouring coffee at * Bucks! O.T. is Otay!!!
LA county pays very well!!! Why do you think there’s so much nepotism in the fire department, sheriff dept, etc. No degree needed and your making 100k + after 5 years. My kids 3rd grade teacher makes 90k or 128k if you include benefits. That’s why he only gets 20 dollar Starbucks card at Christmas.
nope, that’s incorrect. your third graders teachers starting salary is a little under 60,000 “benefits” as you say, are mostly health care, of which that same teacher contributes about 8000 out of that original 60,000 and the district kicks in about 14,000 . You can conflate the info to make it look like they are getting paid 74,000, but that’s about it, as that money goes straight to the insurance company. Pensions? That teacher pays into their own pension plan about 12,000 a year, further lowering the take home.
Give her a $20 Starbucks, yeah, but also thank ‘em, it’s a serious job for a pretty small reward and little chance of home ownership in $$$ LA.
Everyone knows teachers really do it for the opportunity to groom
They deserve it
Treading on used syringes can be painful.
Why is this so important to BeachGrit, which as far as I know, has never done an article about the multi-millionaire (billionaire?) owners/CEOs of Rip Curl (which used slaves to make its products), Quiksilver, etc.?
Why is Italo in Bali
more stuff to do when the surf is flat?
Prolly sick of looking at JMP’s wide arse.
How do they bolt that house onto the reef?
They graft the steel structure onto bamboo which is fixed to the reef with coral implants. Crafted by females, natch.
Green af.
Progressive! Feelz
It’s good to know your tower is enviro friendly when you hold your comp in a National Park. Big stiffies all round.
Joes only got 2 hands.
Is it really?
Maybe to go to a decent party with hotter than hell international megababes, instead of sculling ‘booties’ with K-hole & Joey or shakin’ booty with Stef & Jacko et al.
Or perhaps he’s sick of drinking Corona and wants a few Bintang’s.
Or possibly there was some rain and he’s keen to hit the ‘shroom fields…
Surfing?
What happened to GLAND, given up
Its cursed.
https://fire.lacounty.gov/b…
la is trash.
Maybe they’re getting paid based on ocean user who doesn’t die?
How much should someone be making. Especially if u include 2.5 kids for every couple or women, needed to keep population steady so economy keeps tugging along. That .5 kid is very important as every youngest knows. Growing up a half person in a low income home only leads to crime and or extended sessions in the lineup. Localism and so on.
An acquaintance’s dad is a retired LA County lifeguard. His pension is supposedly well past $100k/year and as soon as he retired he moved to the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe to avoid paying any more state taxes to CA. It’s a good racket to be in!
“It’s Not How Much You Make, It’s How Much You Spend…Or Steal…” (Pirates, allegedly)