State Controller Betty T. Yee on Tuesday published 2021 self-reported payroll data for California special districts on the Government Compensation in California website.
The data cover 162,912 positions and a total of nearly $10.38 billion in 2021 wages and more than $2.92 billion in health and retirement costs for 3,061 special districts.
Special districts are governmental entities created by a local community to meet a specific need.
Data for 2021 show the top 10 districts by total wages are health care, transportation, utility, water, and fire districts. The top 10 individual salaries reported are all in health care districts.
In Lake County, there are 30 special districts, with 413 employees. In 2021, those districts paid salaries totaling $11,315,911, with benefits of $3,811,700.
The top 10 special districts in Lake County by total wages and retirement are as follows:
• Lake County Fire Protection District: 40 employees; wages, $1,911,823; retirement, $782,966.
• Kelseyville Fire Protection District: 29 employees; wages, $1,502,623; retirement, $463,993.
• Northshore Fire Protection District: 39 employees; wages, $1,350,935; retirement, $444,338.
• Clearlake Oaks Water District: 23 employees; wages, $1,162,113; retirement, $359,343.
• Lakeport Fire Protection District: 28 employees; wages, $1,092,064; retirement, $554,992.
• Hidden Valley Lake Community Services District: 23 employees; wages, $1,063,821; retirement, $480,375.
• Lake County Vector Control District Mosquito Abatement: 14 employees; wages, $658,242; retirement, $277,696.
• Konocti County Water District: 21 employees; wages, $592,621; retirement, $128,650.
• Cobb Area County Water District: 19 employees; wages, $384,963; retirement, $91,485;
• Lower Lake County Waterworks District No. 1: 16 employees; wages, $362,111; retirement, $80,951.
California law requires cities, counties and special districts to annually report compensation data to the state controller.
The state controller also maintains and publishes state and California State University salary data.
A list of districts that did not file or filed incomplete reports is available here.
Users of the site can:
• View compensation levels on maps and search by region;
• Narrow results by name of the district or by job title; and
• Export raw data or custom reports.
Since the GCC website launched in 2010, it has registered more than 14 million pageviews. The site contains pay and benefit information on more than two million government jobs in California, as reported annually by each entity.
As the chief fiscal officer of California, Controller Yee is responsible for accountability and disbursement of the state’s financial resources. The controller has independent auditing authority over government agencies that spend state funds.
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