Employee Compensation

Mayor Carlos Gimenez Is a Failure

Anders Gyllenhaal, Ex-Miami Herald Editor, Made Almost $1.3 Million at McClatchy Last Year

At the Miami Herald, staffers are facing two weeks of unpaid furloughs this year and a hiring freeze has left key jobs unfilled for months. The paper's parent company, McClatchy, saw revenues drop 8 percent last year while advertising plummeted by 9 percent. So news that McClatchy has handsomely rew ... More >>

Turns Out Voters Don't Think County Commissioners Deserve an $86,000 Raise

​After a fantastic performance over the past few years -- from backing a grotesquely bad Marlins stadium deal to voting for a billion-dollar tunnel to nowhere to faithfully rewarding their corporate backers -- Miami-Dade County commissioners sure seemed due for a hefty pay raise. Right?Nah, Dade v ... More >>

University of Miami Wants to Get Into the Overtown Hotel Business

The recently completed first phase of the park.​The University of Miami is getting into the hotel business withplans to construct an 18-story hotel as part of its Life Science and Technology Park. However, given its Overtown location, it will not target regular tourists. The hotel will include con ... More >>

Baby Jesus Rocks

The recently completed first phase of the park.​The University of Miami is getting into the hotel business withplans to construct an 18-story hotel as part of its Life Science and Technology Park. However, given its Overtown location, it will not target regular tourists. The hotel will include con ... More >>

Miami Sports Teams that Pay Players the Most Suck the Least

​Remember the time that the New York Yankee's Alex Rodriguez's annual salary was greater than the entire roster of the Florida Marlins combined? Well, the Marlins have agreed to increase their payroll in anticipation of moving into their own ballpark, and now A-Rod only makes about 57 percent of w ... More >>

Letters from the issue of October 28, 2010

​Remember the time that the New York Yankee's Alex Rodriguez's annual salary was greater than the entire roster of the Florida Marlins combined? Well, the Marlins have agreed to increase their payroll in anticipation of moving into their own ballpark, and now A-Rod only makes about 57 percent of w ... More >>

Carlos Alvarez Responds to Our Plea to Support Norman Braman's Recall

​In this week's New Times, we lay out four reasons you should support billionaire Norman Braman's efforts to recall County Mayor Carlos Alvarez. We're obviously not alone in believing the measure has merit -- Braman announced last night that more than 90,000 folks in Dade County have already signe ... More >>

Pay Florida football coaches more

​In this week's New Times, we lay out four reasons you should support billionaire Norman Braman's efforts to recall County Mayor Carlos Alvarez. We're obviously not alone in believing the measure has merit -- Braman announced last night that more than 90,000 folks in Dade County have already signe ... More >>

High School Football Coaches Deserve More Cash

​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke tackles high school football coaching salaries.Florida -- and Miami-Dade -- seriously need to change the way high school ... More >>

CRA Executive Director is Fluent in Dutch, Which Will Come in Handy in Overtown

Commissioner Marc Sarnoff rewards lackey with $220,000 compensation package.​Today, the Miami city commission has a number of special public hearings to decide the fate of the city's budget and how to spend a whole lot of millions of dollars meant to alleviate slum and blight in Overtown and the O ... More >>

Unions Slam Mayor, Commission Over Proposed Pay and Benefit Cuts

photo by Tim Elfrink This cop wants you to know his biblical thoughts on Tomas Regalado.​They packed City Hall by the dozens this afternoon -- the firefighters in bright yellow, the police in dark blue, the general service workers in civvies. They beat the floor, pounded the windows and wh ... More >>

Miami Executive Chefs Among Highest Paid

Revisorweb via wikimedia commons​A salary survey of 1,400 culinary professionasl by StarChefs.com found that Miami and New York executive chefs were paid more in 2009 than their counterparts in other U.S. cities. The average salary for an executive chef here was reported at $101,400 - not far from ... More >>

MP3 of the Day: Hit Play! - "...Progress, I Think?"

​Hit Play! is an up-and-coming outfit boasting a cool local punk rock pedigree, with members coming from bands like Against All Authority, the Stop Motion, and Underpaid. This here MP3 is the opener of the band's upcoming In Case of Emergency EP. What fun! Gaston de la Vega on bass and Machbeth Pr ... More >>

Nine City of Miami Workers Earning More Than $100K Get the Boot

A couple months ago, the City of Miami's budget was about as well-balanced as Gary Busey on PCP. ​The Commission, Mayor Manny Diaz and the city's three unions staged a vicious tug-of-war over who would feel the most pain in plugging a $118 million hole.But as Tomas Regalado prepares to take o ... More >>

Professor Alvarez's School of Journalism

screencap via CBS4​Apparently Mayor Carlos Alvarez didn't think the budget meeting would pack enough drama into his day, so he decided to schedule an early-afternoon news conference yesterday to call out the Miami Herald. You can watch the nearly hourlong proceedings on CBS4's website. " ... More >>

At Last Night's Mayoral Debate, Everyone Lost (Their Heads)

​The group that gathered last night for the City of Miami mayoral debate between commissioners Tomas Regalado and Joe Sanchez made Joe Wilson, Kanye West, and Serena Williams look like upstanding examples of manners. Maybe they didn't get the message they're supposed to act civilly for the next we ... More >>

Baby Got Fatback!

Why are so many cities laying off little guys and not cutting executives' porcine salaries?

$200K Publicly Funded Bureaucrat to Make the County Green

​Facing a $427 million deficit, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez promised he would thin out the county executive offices by 10 percent in his proposed budget. The Herald has written a fair amount about this lately. So have we. What you might not know is that two of them with monster salari ... More >>

Most County Executives Safe from Budget Cuts

Alex Izaguirre​UPDATE: Earlier this week, Miami-Dade County spokeswoman Vicki Mallette responded to my earlier report regarding executive salaries. I apologize to my readers for not posting her response sooner.She insisted that Alvarez is proposing in the budget a ten percent reduction to the coun ... More >>

Big Money on Top at Miami-Dade County Hall

When in doubt, pay the chiefs and forget the workers.

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Crüe Cut

Vince Neil remains

Cut! County Film Office Goes on the Chopping Block

Vince Neil remains

Arriola's Largesse

Vince Neil remains

Fewer Lawmen

May mean more lawlessness

Civil $ervice

Who says it doesn't pay?

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Pity the Poor Politicos

Voters gave Miami's city commissioners a huge raise, but that hasn't stopped them from keeping their day jobs

Tornillo Toasts Your Health

Teachers union to school district: We demand higher health insurance costs. School district: Okay, boss. HMO to lobbyist: Thanks a million.

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The Dumping Ground

When family members or cronies need a job, Dade county politicians drop them off at the airport

Raising Pain

Glenn Terry thinks a salary hike is the answer to Miami's commission woes. Others insist it's money for nothing.