For those lucky enough to have a ticket, “America’s Great State Payroll Giveaway” is right up there with the Powerball lottery. In California, the individual most profitably cashing in is all over the local LA media this week as a result of the first of a six-part Bloomberg News series.
From the article by LA based Rodney Yap together with east coast Bloomberg colleagues Freeman Klopott and Terrence Dopp:
Mohammad Safi, a graduate of a medical school in Afghanistan, began working as a psychiatrist at a California mental hospital in 2006, making $90,682 in his first six months. Last year, he took home $822,302, all of it paid by taxpayers.
Safi benefited from what amounted to a bidding war after a federal court forced the state to improve inmate care. The prisons raised pay to lure psychiatrists, the mental health department followed suit to keep employees, and costs soared.
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