The New Era - All about Sweet Home since 1929

The highest levels of overtime wages among Sweet Home-area public employees last year went to a Sweet Home Fire and Ambulance District employee, who made $21,500 on top of an $81,600 administrative salary, according to an analysis by The New Era.

Recently, a reader dropped by this newspaper with a news clipping from the Los Angeles Times about overtime in the city of Los Angeles, where a firefighter banked $360,000 in overtime alone in a single year. She wondered whether that sort of overtime was occurring in Sweet Home. The reader also complained that the Sweet Home Fire and Ambulance Dis...