Executive pay

The Atlanta Journal Constitution is reporting that current Governor Nathan Deal has increased the payroll in his office by thirty percent over the benchmark set by the previous administration of Sonny Perdue. The additional salary expense is attributed to ten more employees working for the new governor. With our economy struggling and already a bloated government budget running a deficit, the last thing we need are more government workers. The size of government should be reduced, not expanded. Curiously, the AJC article lists the governor of Georgia's salary. Nathan Deal earns $139,339 per year to run the entire state. Why the added emphasis?  The Savannah Morning News website SavannahNow.com has reported that interim city manager Rochelle Small-Toney is making a whopping $190, 575 to manage a city a fraction the size of metropolitan Atlanta. How and why does the interim city manager of Georgia's 4th largest city make over $50,000 a year more than the governor?   Why are we paying anybody in government this kind of money when states are going bankrupt? … [Read more...]