Holy crap! $93,772 to be a damned meter reader?

My brother is deputy director of education for The State of New York, he has 3 masters degrees, has written 2 books on special education, and one book about school budgeting, and even HE doesn't make that much.

Where do I sign up to be a meter reader that makes $93,772 ?

/what? and leave show biz?
//damned right!
///it's not nearly as glamorous as it's made out to be.

That is unreal.....where do I sign up??

Graziano said he deserved his pay because his job duties are "far greater than the average superintendent," doing such things as negotiating contracts, setting rates and discussing design issues with consulting engineers.

Hmm...according to the NY state education department, the responsibilities for an superintendent include all of those things, plus a bit more. Link (new window) Sounds like a whiny biatch to me...

Payroll records show, for example, that Water Authority of Great Neck North Superintendent Robert Graziano makes $183,283 a year -- more than the governor of New York, who makes $179,000. The district's assistant superintendent is Graziano's son Gregory, who makes $95,700 a year. Gregory Graziano also drives a 2005 Dodge Durango, complete with a DVD player, paid for by the district.

The senior Graziano receives fully paid medical, dental, vision and pension benefits worth thousands more. He gets a 2005 Ford Crown Victoria, with gas and insurance paid for by the district and he received low-interest financing from the authority to buy a home.

Graziano is the highest-paid water superintendent on Long Island, supervising a staff of 27 people. The authority covers 7.5 miles and serves 31,400 people, according to officials.

"I think I'm underpaid," Graziano said.

Graziano said he deserved his pay because his job duties are "far greater than the average superintendent," doing such things as negotiating contracts, setting rates and discussing design issues with consulting engineers.

/insert pointy haired diblert boss here

Wow, that's horrible.

Well, I'm sure after he's fired outright and replaced easily he can find another job that pays him more than enough to sit on his ass all day in a suit and pretend to work. Come on, the only thing a superintendent does is just screw over people and students so he can basically dick around in his office all day. Seriously, how many of you actually saw anything go on in the superintendent's office ever? EVER?

My mom is a teacher so I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

Seriously now. The problem that teachers, like my mom, have is not so much that they are underpaid. It is because that the administrators are seriously OVERPAID. The school district where I live is thinking about paying near $200,000 for a new superintendent IIRC. I tried to get the exact figure from her, but she said, "I don't know, they don't do any work anyway."

The problem that keeps happening is that the big whigs try to get the best and the brightest when they don't NEED the best and the brightest. Is there going to be that significant of a difference between a $100,000 superintendent and a $180,000 superintendent?

Yes, running a school district isn't the easiest thing, but you eventually get to the point of diminishing returns to where spending more money doesn't get you more benefits.

Guntram Shatterhand: Come on, the only thing a superintendent does is just screw over people and students so he can basically dick around in his office all day.

Crosshair: The problem that teachers, like my mom, have is not so much that they are underpaid. It is because that the administrators are seriously OVERPAID.

RTFA, people. These are utility superintendents, not school district superintendents.

JayRH: RTFA, people. These are utility superintendents, not school district superintendents.

I did RTFA, I was using my moms personal experience as an example and to make a point. That point is that the people at the top are often overpaid and that a less costly alternative could often do the job just as effectively.

This ungratefulness and sense of entitlement of the people at the top leads to resentment from the people at the bottom. This leads to the people at the bottom not respecting the leaders at the top. This leads to countless problems in the workplace that are detrimental to everyone.

I too have personal experience in this. We literally went from a store manager that everyone liked and respected to a SM that very few like and respect. The way the store functioned visibly changed and not for the better.

Simple solution: Ask them how much of a raise they think they deserve. Then cut their pay by that amount, tell them if they don't like it, quit.

Crosshair: JayRH: RTFA, people. These are utility superintendents, not school district superintendents.

I did RTFA, I was using my moms personal experience as an example and to make a point. That point is that the people at the top are often overpaid and that a less costly alternative could often do the job just as effectively.

This ungratefulness and sense of entitlement of the people at the top leads to resentment from the people at the bottom. This leads to the people at the bottom not respecting the leaders at the top. This leads to countless problems in the workplace that are detrimental to everyone.

I too have personal experience in this. We literally went from a store manager that everyone liked and respected to a SM that very few like and respect. The way the store functioned visibly changed and not for the better.
Duh. This is the way it is at almost every company that is publicly traded. Ever worked for a big corporation?

By way of comparison, the general manager of our utility here makes $217,977 a year, supervises 445 employees, and runs (in my opinion) a pretty good organization that services over 250,000 people.

And I seriously doubt that California is a whole lot cheaper to live in than Long Island.

At the West Hempstead water district, Frederick Kurz, secretary to the board, saw his salary increase 32 percent, from $70,200 in 2001 to $92,822 in 2006, even though his job title did not change. He said his job includes attending meetings, taking minutes and working on the budget.

"I have a whole bunch of papers on my desk," he explained in an interview. He added that he didn't think his pay was a lot for the responsibility of his job.

Asked why he makes such good coin for being a farking secretary, this is what this douchenozzle has to say? "I have a whole bunch of papers on my desk"? Get a monkey a desk, cover it with papers, and it would meet with this qualification for deserving to make over $90k/year. Disgusting.

Also, he's a 90k per year secretary, and he can't even organize his farking desk.

Nearly every writer in the writer's guild makes at least 10x that. And yet, we're supposedly cheering them in their greedy lust for more money.

/Ugh!

jake3988: Nearly every writer in the writer's guild makes at least 10x that. And yet, we're supposedly cheering them in their greedy lust for more money.

/Ugh!

i find it hard to believe that most of the members of the writer's guild make over 1,000,000 a year.

jake3988: Nearly every writer in the writer's guild makes at least 10x that. And yet, we're supposedly cheering them in their greedy lust for more money.

/Ugh!

i find it hard to believe that most of the members of the writer's guild make over 1,000,000 a year.

This and to me it's more about the distribution of the money. They deserve a bigger slice compared to what they were getting from the production companies and their executives. If you think they're getting too much money all around, well stop giving it to them and get everybody else to do the same.

Graziano said he deserved his pay because his job duties are "far greater than the average superintendent," doing such things as negotiating contracts, setting rates and discussing design issues with consulting engineers.

What a motherfarking retard. You run the show, jackass. This sounds like normal shiat for running a school district. What'd you expect?

I'd do the farking job for half that.

As the assistant superintendent of the Water Authority of Great Neck North, Gregory Graziano has seen his salary increase 45 percent since 2002 without any change in his job title, according to payroll records. Last year alone, he got a 10 percent increase, to $95,700.
#1. Nepotism.
#2. What the hell does his job 'title' have anything to do with it? If he was called Executive Assistant Superintendent, does he deserve a raise?

jake3988: Nearly every writer in the writer's guild makes at least 10x that. And yet, we're supposedly cheering them in their greedy lust for more money.

/Ugh!

The median salary for WGA employees is ~$5000 per year, meaning that fully half of them make about one twentieth as much as this supernintendo.

moothemagiccow: #2. What the hell does his job 'title' have anything to do with it? If he was called Executive Assistant Superintendent, does he deserve a raise?

Yes. In the public sector, your job title determines what responsibilities you can be assigned. A change in job title entails a change in the scope of what you are expected to complete.

Well then, he should quit and find a job where he's paid what he's worth.

jake3988: Nearly every writer in the writer's guild makes at least 10x that. And yet, we're supposedly cheering them in their greedy lust for more money.

/Ugh!

You are an uninformed idiot. Most WGA members make less than 100,000 and are struggling to remain in the middle class. The median salary is only 5,000 a year.

didn't rtfa.. don't really know what a utility superintendant is.. but yeah when I was in hs the si did nothing... at all. more of a figurehead than anything.