The city of Inglewood has released annual payroll records for 2020 which shows a shift in who are the highest paid employees on the city’s payroll. Treasurer Wanda Brown alluded to a “special” payroll run in Oct. 2020 at the top of the 2020-2021 fiscal year.
City Manager Artie Fields is now the highest paid employee working for the city of Inglewood.
Fields received a three-year contract September 2019 with an annual salary of $318,049 which must keep him “12% more than the base salary of any subordinate”. He receives an annual auto allowance of $9,000, and is required to cover his contributions towards his CalPERS retirement benefits. The contract includes the same salary increases, as percentages, pursuant to the Inglewood Executive Organization (IEU)
According to city records published to Transparent California, Fields received $71,000 in additional pay not spelled out in his contract. The typical bonus the council awards executives doesn’t exceed $20,000.
In 2019, Fields salary showed he took a slight pay decrease when his new contract went into effect the following year.
City Attorney Ken Campos comes in at number two with a $251,686 base salary and “other pay” amounting to $118,378. It is unclear what the “other pay” consists of.
Police Chief Mark Fronterotta is the third highest paid Inglewood employee with a base salary of $216,280 and “other pay” amounting to $103,365.
In July 2020, all of the city’s bargaining units were notified they wouldn’t receive any raises, despite their assertions they were “promised” them because of the expected influx of revenue from SoFi Stadium that hasn’t quite materialized, yet.
Related: Letter to the Editor: Inglewood City employees won’t receive raises this contract year
The city continues to lose staff, in both city hall and the police department, due to lack of raises and/or cost of living increases despite the city raising fees to the public becuae of inflation.
Read the full list of Inglewood salaries for 2020 by clicking here.
3 Comments
Isn’t this the same slide of self-serving language Marc Weinberg introduced when he was an employee?….how great to recommend another get a raise with the non-disclosed self reward increase automatically kicking in.
How embarrassing!
Not only is the report seriously late it is also incomplete.
Whoever was responsible for submitting this report should definitely not be considered worth the salary they are paid..
Human Resources certainly Should know what job each employee is hired to perform.
Finance/ Accounting/ Payroll should definitely not release funds or printing any check without approved purpose line being complete,
Information technology wizards likewise should make it impossible for payroll or vendor payments to be
Generated without requiring reason for payment “fields” being complete.
Inglewood residents need to hold the Mayor and his Team responsible for hiring the incompetent and rewarding half baked functionality
Another city manager will use Inglewoods city manager salary for their survey of similar salaries as a basis of their “worth”. The problem is the higher ups get higher salaries while the rest of the city employees are stuck on their salary for the next decade.