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California Controller’s Office publishes 2019 payroll data for special districts
The data cover 164,981 positions and a total of nearly $9.86 billion in 2019 wages and just under $2.83 billion in health and retirement costs for 3,093 special districts.
Special districts are governmental entities created by a local community to meet a specific need. Data for 2019 show the top 10 districts by total wages are in health care, transit, utility, water, and fire districts. Nine of the top 10 individual salaries reported are in health care districts.
The state controller also maintains and publishes state and California State University salary data.
California law requires cities, counties and special districts to annually report compensation data to the state controller.
In Lake County, the site reported there are 28 special districts with 413 employees, wages totaling $10,481,433 and $3,402,464 in retirement and health contributions.
The top 10 largest special districts in Lake County are as follows:
– Lake County Fire Protection District: 48 employees; wages, $1,828,737; retirement and health contributions, $842,697.
– Kelseyville Fire Protection District: 42 employees; wages, $1,581,252; retirement and health contributions, $434,497;
– Northshore Fire Protection District: 37 employees; wages, $1,319,098; retirement and health contributions, $431,851.
– Hidden Valley Lake Community Services District: 18 employees; wages, $1,045,225; retirement and health contributions, $426,752.
– Clearlake Oaks Water District: 27 employees; wages, $938,687; retirement and health contributions, $269,991.
– Lakeport Fire Protection District: 30 employees; wages, $853,883; retirement and health contributions, $366,648.
– Lake County Vector Control District: 16 employees; wages, $613,495; retirement and health contributions, $245,225.
– Konocti County Water District: 17 employees; wages, $539,485; retirement and health contributions, $157,757.
– Cobb Area County Water District: 18 employees; wages, $336,431; retirement and health contributions, $50,094.
– Lower Lake County Waterworks District No. 1: 14 employees; wages, $303,632; retirement and health contributions, $61,421.
An additional special district in Lake County, the Anderson Springs Community Services District, didn’t file information for 2019, according to the site.
A list of districts that did not file or filed incomplete reports is available here.
Since the GCC website launched in 2010, it has registered more than 12 million pageviews. The site contains pay and benefit information on more than two million government jobs in California, as reported annually by each entity.
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.
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.