The average annual salary of a City of San Francisco is $93,000.  One third of its employees make over $100,000 a year.   A retired deputy police chief got $516,118 in one year.  The base salary for a SF fireman is $102,64.  Twenty-eight city workers make over $250,000 a year.  Investors Business Daily:  “The city’s unions, which are powerful even by California standards, have produced a public-workers’ paradise financed by high taxes on tourists, businesses (San Francisco even has a 1.5% tax on payrolls) and regular folk . . . . “

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