Who’s making what?

Starting this week, the salaries of roughly three dozen Los Angeles County executives who head agencies as obscure as the office of Military and Veterans Affairs and as massive as the Department of Public Social Services can be viewed online for the first time.

The action came after the Board of Supervisors two weeks ago unanimously approved a motion by Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky aimed at increasing transparency in the wake of the city of Bell salary scandal. The salaries of the county’s elected officials have long been a matter of public record, as have salary ranges for all job classifications within the bureaucracy. (Members of the Board of Supervisors make $178,789 a year.)

Topping the newly posted list of board-appointed officials is Chief Executive Officer William T Fujioka, with an annual salary of $338,458. He’s followed by the director of the Department of Public Health, Dr. Jonathan Fielding, whose annual salary is $309.494.

The complete list can be seen here and accessed through county’s main website.

Posted 8/25/10