Are we headed in this same direction in New York and mainly Western New York? Read what is going on. Firefighters getting paid to hold fundraisers, salaries well over 100 grand a year and some as high as 400,000+. It has been a lets party attitude, the taxpayer will pay for everything, it is a bottomless pit of cash for the union leaders. Their attitude is the same there as it is here. There is always a hidden bank account, there is always more money, they refuse to give up anything and simply state “raise taxes”…

As we watch this city lead the way, hopefully more will follow and it will also start here. We either wake up and wake up NOW or we will be reading about ourselves doing the same thing.

City of Vallejo’s $100K-plus Earners

During the calendar year 2007, there were 292 City of Vallejo employees who had total gross wages of $100,000 or more. Find out who they were, what departments they worked for and how much they made by searching that database below.

To perform a search, you can leave the fields blank or on “select” if you want broad results. For more narrow results, you can enter a person’s name or select from the drop-down menus. (The data was provided by the City of Vallejo’s Finance Department)

Recent Chronicle coverage of the Vallejo budget crisis:

Vallejo’s fire union partied on city’s dime March 12, 2008

A closer look at Vallejo’s woes March 10, 2008

Vallejo City Council OKs short-term budget fix March 4, 2008

Vallejo budget agreement to avoid bankruptcy March 2, 2008

Vallejo, unions set cost-cutting deal February 29, 2008

Vallejo in danger of declaring bankruptcy February 21, 2008