Critics say the City of Miami is spending too much taxpayer money on employee salaries. A recently elected city commissioner agrees, and proposed a pay transparency portal that has just gone live.
A recent report from WLRN News partner Coconut Grove Spotlight found that 70% of Miami’s annual budget is spent on salaries, and a growing number of city employees make more than $200,000 per year. While employee pay is usually the biggest expenditure on any large organization’s budget, City Commissioner Rolando Escalona thinks that number is too high.
“I do believe that 70% of all the money we collect to go into salaries is a lot of money. We should manage to lower that number,” Escalona told WLRN in an interview…