Senate Staff Salaries Online!

by CalWatchdog Staff | August 30, 2010 2:54 pm

Anthony Pignataro: Exciting, isn’t it? Well, to us wonkish, nerdish reporters, it is. Yes, folks, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg[1] has agreed to post a 22-page PDF spreadsheet[2] listing the salaries of all Senate staffers, right there real prominent-like on the Senate website [3](see it there at the bottom?).

With this list, you can quickly find that, say, Kernan “Kip” Lipper — Steinberg’s Executive Staff Director who is so powerful that he’s often called the “41st senator”[4] — brings in $13,764 a month. Or that Joanna Manzano, an intern at something called the “Secretary Senate/Desk” makes the slightly smaller figure of $800 a month.

Of course, the list itemizes only salaries — no pensions or benefits here, folks. And currently, it’s just the Senate. As for when the Assembly might follow with its own staff accounting, you guess is as good as anyone’s: that’s because the Assembly is trying to pass a law (rather than just a rule, which is what the Senate did) mandating disclosure. And you know how good they are at that this time of year…

Posted Aug. 30, 2010

Endnotes:

Darrell Steinberg: http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Darrell_Steinberg
22-page PDF spreadsheet: http://www.senate.ca.gov/~newsen/senate_payroll_081510.pdf
website : http://www.senate.ca.gov/
“41st senator”: http://articles.latimes.com/2009/nov/29/local/la-me-lipper29-2009nov29

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