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Aug. 11, 2010: City Salaries – Hefty Increases Dominate, With Notable Exceptions of Library, Finance, Police, Streets

By Carolyn Schuk

The growth of public sector compensation has been a hot news topic ever since Bell California's exorbitant city salaries made the headlines. Santa Clara offers its own, albeit more modest, laboratory of how the dynamics of civil service pay can take on independent life of its own, driven by politics and detached from the economic and revenue realities.