Who knew that working for the City of Santa Ana could make you a rich man? The O.C. Register investigated what many of our local cities are paying to their retired city employees.
While most of us have a bankrupt Social Security program to look forward to in our retirement, public employees make a ton of money in retirement, based on their last salary paid. It is common practices for city’s to spike their employee’s pensions by giving them a raise in their last year of employment. This happens a lot in Santa Ana, in particular.
Is this one of the reasons that the City of Santa Ana has such a huge budget deficit?
Here is the list of Santa Ana retired employees who are making over six figures in their retirement:
SANTA ANA
- PHILLIP GARCIA $173,776.08
- FRANKLIN JENSEN $146,259.48
- WAYNE BOWMAN $142,134.24
- GEORGE SAADEH $140,825.04
- RAYMOND COMEAU $138,313.08
- WILLIAM ZASTROW $137,952.48
- ROBERT TYLER $137,472.24
- ANDY MONEY $136,292.64
- ALLEN CARTER $135,825.72
- JON RIBBLE $133,996.92
- ROBIN MCCOY $129,565.20
- BALTAZAR DE LA RIVA $126,492.12
- DAVID NICK $121,399.68
- MICHAEL FOOTE $121,322.76
- KENNETH HALL $121,228.92
- JOSE GARCIA $121,187.16
- JOHN PEREZ $121,091.40
- PHILIP ARCHER $120,635.88
- CHARLES MAGDALENA $119,259.84
- FELIX OSUNA $119,173.56
- ERNEST HOEFT $117,542.28
- WILLIAM TEGELER $117,111.24
- COLLIE PROVENCE $115,110.48
- JIMMY DALTON $113,925.60
- THOMAS SKELLY $113,783.40
- CHARLES MILLER $113,127.12
- JOHN CHAMBERS $112,292.28
- TIMOTHY GRABER $112,228.68
- GUADALUPE GARCIA $111,991.32
- ROBERT HELTON $111,116.64
- RAYMOND DAVIS $110,203.92
- CHARLES DEAKINS $110,061.96
- WILLIAM SANDLIN $109,275.36
- HUGH MOONEY $109,241.16
- GERARDO MATA $108,438.36
- IRMA MANDELL $107,896.32
- GARY ADAMS $107,423.76
- RICHARD MARTIN $105,809.04
- KEVIN BROWN $104,965.08
- DENNIS STUELAND $104,346.84
- JAMES DITTMAN $103,682.28
- BRUCE LEAMER $103,530.12
- ROBERT SAYNE $103,106.52
- WILLIAM BARRETT $102,634.56
- GARY BIDGOOD $102,448.92
- WILLIAM SCHEER $100,918.32
- ROBERT STEBBINS $100,688.16
- WILLIAM MCCOY $100,616.76
- RICHARD BOUCHARD $100,333.08
- MICHAEL OVERN $100,237.80
