I will be evaluating some of the different city departments and the salaries. The numbers are interesting, especially when it comes to upper management and the recent denial of a 3% COLA to the FOP.
Today we will look at the city department that has been squeezing everyone for their last penny, then turns around and blows it on entertainment and monster raises. Which confuses me. How do you give the finance director of a city a large raise like that ($10K) when we are NOT a for profit business? OH, that’s right, Mike still thinks he works at a corporation.
Of the 31 employees in the office, there are only 5 accountants, but 8 business analysts (that get better salaries then the accountants, go figure). It also seems the department pays the minions much less then the management and analysts. Finance spends over $2 million a year on wages.
What confuses me the most is that they have 8 business analysts. Is that normal for a city? What was it when Munson ran the show?
If the finance department wants to start cutting, I highly suggest they start in their department.
Here is the full doc: 2017-Wages
Obviously, there are 8 political appointments in finance. Call them analysts. I call them Huether payola that do not bother to report to work. Growth in city departments has tripled since Munson. It’s so bad that there must be empty offices on 3 floors of a new city administration building. The rats and crickets need somewhere to thrive. When you’re destitute, you can live on vermin and insects until there’s an opportunity to overthrow the dictator.
FYI – A business analyst is someone who analyzes an organization or business domain (real or hypothetical) and documents its business or processes or systems…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_analyst
Documenting the city’s actions and processes seems to be in the interest of the people of SF. If the city is doing something I would rather it be thought out and documented. Especially if i want the city to account for the actions they take.
Your point about number and effective use is valid, but I think you are being a little lazy by pointing out there are a lot of business analyst and you don’t know that they are so they must be wasteful.