California’s Top 10 Paid City Managers Raked in $4.7 Million
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Robert Gutierrez got $459,468 in salary and severance in 2009 as city manager of Moreno Valley, a suburb with 450 employees and 193,000 residents an hour east of Los Angeles. That’s twice the salary of the governor, responsible for 353,000 employees and 37 million people.
Gutierrez wasn’t alone. Almost four in 10 city managers in California were paid more than the state’s chief executive in 2009, according to payroll data. The top 10 shared $4.7 million including bonuses and allowances to oversee cities averaging 115,000, the data shows. Eighty-five managers that year were paid $250,000 or more.