Let’s do some fun math.
My PUD bill was well over $200 last month, but since it is lower in the summer, we use $200 for a nice round number. That monthly amount times 12 months is $2,400, right?
Now the general manager of PUD will now be making (gulp) $237,036, not including all those benefits, which add up to more than many people make in a year, and no one I know gets 49 days off a year, unless you are only counting Sundays.
Back to that $237,036.
How many of us at $2,400 per year is it going to take to pay just his wages?
Get out the handy, dandy calculator and I discover it will take almost 99 households just to pay his yearly wages of over a quarter million dollars.
This doesn’t include any other employees, any of the power or equipment or anything else.
Only his wages.
Don’t forget he gets a month and a half off a year.
And why is he getting a 3 percent raise?
Who else is getting a $7,608 raise this year?
If I were him I would be embarrassed.
Lauralee DeLuca
Sequim