Sunday, November 14, 2010

Get to know your Miami-Dade officials

"The ratio of [Miami-Dade] county employees earning $100,000 or more is not out of line with other governments or the general population." -Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez, Nov. 9, 2010

Today Random Pixels is introducing a regular series of mini-profiles of your Miami-Dade County officials wherein we compare their duties and salary to those of similar government officials throughout the U.S.

Today's official...

MDPD director James Loftus
Name: James Loftus

Title: Director, Miami-Dade Police Department

Miami-Dade County population 2,500,000

Duties: Oversees a department with 2900 sworn officers and 1700 support personnel.

Annual salary: $200,297 a year with executive benefits of $8,942

Now let's compare Loftus's salary and duties to that of the New York City police commissioner.

Name: Raymond W. Kelly

Title: New York City Police Commissioner

New York City population: 8,391,881

Duties: Kelly oversees the largest urban police department in the world with 34,500 sworn officers

Annual salary: $205,000 a year