"Nurse Making $269,810 Demonstrates California Public Worker Overtime Binge"
By Michael B. Marois
Bloomberg
October 25, 2011
Link: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-26/nurse-making-269-810-demonstrates-california-s-overtime-binge.html

Excerpts (see news article cited directly above):

• Jean Keller earned $269,810 last year working as a nurse at a men’s prison on California’s central coast by tripling her regular pay with overtime hours.
• The extra compensation underscores a broader trend in California, where government workers are paid more than in other states for similar duties. Among them: city managers whose pay is higher than the governor’s, prison doctors who make more than counterparts in other states and Los Angeles firefighters who collect twice the national mean.

Commentary:

• California's public employees are the new Gilded Class.