Rescuers at Blue City Cash in six -digit wages on the penny of taxpayers

It is not only the waves that make a splash in Los Angeles this July 4 – The pay -out -up payroll checks also run the heads.

According to A new report By the tax surveillance group OPENTHEBUSBUS, at least one rescue of the county of La Ratified more than half a million dollars last year. Meanwhile, 34 rescuers brought in $ 300,000 or more in 2024, while 134 reported at least $ 200,000 basic salary, overtime and other advantages.

The taxpayers of the County of Los Angeles are used to being soaked, but it could be “disturbing” for some to hear how many rescuers are paid while the city is still faced with a shortage of firefighters and police, and fights to extinguish forest fires or returning violent crimes at pre-Pandemic levels, said the CEO of Openthebook, John Hart.

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Los Angeles County Rescuers keep a watchful eye on the crowd at hand for the Ironman Hermosa on July 4, 2019 in Hermosa Beach, California. (Photo of Jay L. Clendenin / Getty Images)

“Rescuers who risk their lives by protecting the public deserve to be well compensated, but paying them more than $ 500,000 can be disturbing for taxpayers who drown in debt,” Hart told Fox News Digital. “Once again, Los Angeles – a city that has trouble extinguishing fires and looting – opens the way in a sumptuous salary that must be addressed.”

The 134 highest paid rescuers in La Comté de la La gained $ 70.8 million last year, according to OpenThebooks – on average more than $ 500,000 of total compensation per person. In addition to basic remuneration and overtime, the dollar amount also includes “other” wages, time payments, health insurance payments, retirement contributions, deferred contributions, long-term disabilities and life insurance payments.

Openhebooks of the highest paid rescuer found brought in $ 523,351 in base salary, “other salary” and services in 2024.

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The rescuers keep an eye on people who relax in the Sand in Long Beach on Wednesday, July 8, 2020. (Photo of Keith Birmingham / Medianews Group / Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images)

The Division of County Rescuers of the East is recognized as one of the greatest services of professional rescuers in the country. According to Openthebooks, in addition to more remunerated rescuers, whose tasks can range from swimmers to the main maritime rescues and emergency interventions, there are a series of less well -remunerated rescuers who bring the total number in the Los Angeles region to around 1,500.

Openhebooks, which follows unnecessary expenses across the government, reported in 2021 that the highest paid rescuers of the County of Los Angeles had earned up to $ 510,283, almost half of which was a salary in overtime. That year, 98 rescuers from the Comté de la La gained at least $ 200,000.

In 2024, the overtime salary played a major role in increasing rescuers’ gains in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles County rescuers earn massive wages, with a winner more than $ 500,000 in 2024. (istock)

Beyond Los Angeles, an excessive salary in overtime has triggered a debate in other cities – in particular those who are struggling with large budgetary gaps.

In Seattle, the police had to be disciplined for having repeatedly violated the city’s overtime policy. By The Seattle TimesA patrol officer did more than the mayor, the police chief or any other city employee in 2019 after having raised more than $ 414,000.

Overtime was also a problem in other major cities like New York and Chicago. In Chicago, where the city is faced with an increasing budget deficit, the files obtained by a local media found that during the first six months of 2024, the city had already spent 30% more than that allocated to the overtime of the police. In New York, a former head of department of NYPD is currently the subject of an investigation for alleged overtime abuses and other crimes.

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The “Big Beautiful Bill” of the Republicans is supposed to help overtime to bring home, with its disposition “without tax on advice”. Initially, the version of the bill of the bill had no limits to the salary of overtime could be exempt, but the version of the Senate of the bill capped it at $ 12,500.

Fox News Digital contacted the Public Information Office of the County of Los Angeles to comment but did not hear at the time of the press.