Mayor Thomas M. Menino doled out raises to 42 top city administrators yesterday ranging from 1.5 to 4.5 percent, keeping his Boston public safety chiefs at the top of the scale while also rewarding his inner circle of financial and administrative aides.
The raises are retroactive to October last year, so the officials who received them will also collect lump-sum payments ranging from several hundred dollars to several thousand.
The largest dollar-value raises this week went to Police Commissioner Edward Davis and Fire Commissioner Roderick Fraser, who each got a $6,700 bump, pushing their annual salaries to $174,200. The mayor's Cabinet chief for information technology, William Oates, whom Menino hired from an international hotel corporation, received the second highest raise at $4,000. He will now collect $154,875 annually.
One fiscal watchdog group praised the mayor's use of merit-based raises and said the overall cost of the pay increases - a total of $148,451 per year - is well within acceptable boundaries, despite the tough economic times.
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It is not like I am against people getting raises; however, this state is borrowing up a storm and tossing away billions as well as being looted by government parasites like the mayor here.
These folks are MAKING OVER $150k while TAXPAYERS in this state are getting SCREWED!!!!
And we just got it again!
