Please keep in mind the evening and weekend hours teachers spend preparing lesson plans, grading papers, etc. They are not paid overtime for any of that.

Unidentified city maintenance worker gets paid for every second over 8 hours that he works.

Also, keep in mind the benefits issue. If a teacher wants benefits for themselves +2, it’s approx. $1200 per month out of pocket. Even in the summer.

Unidentified city maintenace worker doesn’t pay anywhere near that – in fact, the SEIU workers working for the FUSD pay something around $400 a month for their benefits for them plus family.

So apparently, the city panders to the service workers unions a lot more than they do the teachers’ union.

When you normalize the teachers’ income to 12 months of work – - how do the two salaries compare ?

Please don’t get me wrong – -

I think it’s ludicrous that a teacher who has demonstrated effectivenss in his/her craft is not paid near the top of the public salary pyramid . . . that said, those who choose to work 9-10 months out of the year will also earn a correspondingly lower annualized salary.

So he may not actually MAKE $100,000 a year. Even if he had no OT, he’s still making over $60,000 plus benefits and pension. That’s too much for a city maintenance employee.

To put it in perspective, that’s more than a first year (or up until about 5 years actually – the salary schedule is available on their website) teacher in the FUSD makes. And they have to pay 100% of their benefits, the city/district contributes nothing.

Fremont pays people who pick up trash at the parks more than they pay the people who educate your children.

And foul for the lack of interpretation, Randy. I think that $47/hr which translates to $100K is par for an EE. My suggestion to shut up and listen to what I write still stands, sweetheart.