Supreme Court rules in favor of gay marriage

I looked up my County Clerk's office, also an elected position, and the salary is anywhere from $96K-$161K per year. Granted, there are a lot more people here, and a much, much larger tax base, but still.

The deputy county clerk makes up to $125K. The clerk for the Board of Supervisors maxes out at around the same - her deputy makes $50-60K. As far as I know, they're all appointed except the County Clerk.

 

Cost of living where you are is much more expensive too, but it's still a joke on all of us.

 

Yeah, but for comparison's sake, the maximum for a GS-15, Step 10 - the highest position on the GS scale in the federal government - doesn't reach $160K per year, even with DC locality pay.

Senior Executive Service appointees start at less than that, too, although their ceiling is higher.

 

I can only imagine how hard they're laughing at what journalists make over at CountyClerks.com.

I sure wish I had taken a County Clerk major instead of Journalism when I was in college. County Clerking doesn't seem to have been affected much by the rise of the Internet.

 

If what she believes is true, she's going to hell now, right?

 

A Washington Post columnist put it perfectly (I'm paraphrasing): You're free to believe the Earth is 6,000 years old, but you probably wouldn't be able to hold a job at the U.S. Geological Survey if you refuse to backdate the rocks.

 

I agree.

 

I'd probably have guessed $60K but $80K doesn't seem so out of whack to me.

It strikes me as really dumb when middle-class people begrudge other middle-class peoples' salaries, as if they are somehow going to get more if their neighbor across the street makes less.

 

They're public servants. Elected to serve us, and whose salaries we pay.

And, I'm sorry, but $80,000 to serve as the "clerk" for a county of less than 25,000 people, with a poverty rate near 30 percent and a median household income of $35,000, is ridiculous. Especially if SHE REFUSES TO ACTUALLY DO THE JOB.

 

Best of this meme I've seen so far ...