Other pay could be non-pensionable payments. Education or fitness incentives. Certain departments total compensation is bullshit. If they are self insured... they can claim health benefits cost whatever they want to say. So they often inflate those numbers to show better "compensation". Example... say health benefits really only cost $250/mo.... dept will say it costs $1000. That will show up as "pay".
Meals, perhaps. Some contracts may provide for meal pay if working a certain amount of hours in a day. At least that would be the case for the Fire personnel with moderate amounts.
A lot of people in various State of CA agencies got a significant amount of "other pay" during the last couple of years. regingrobot makes a valid point about meals for firemen, and that is probably true. But I doubt it was meals for the agencies where everyone was working from home. I was thinking maybe it was equipment for their homes, like computers and cameras, that were deemed the employee's to keep versus having to return upon leaving the job?
A friend of mine was approached by the Masonic Temple. They told him that most of the police and firefighters were Masons... Hmm extra pay for Satan?
Yeah, I'm suspicious of what "other pay" means.
Other pay could be non-pensionable payments. Education or fitness incentives. Certain departments total compensation is bullshit. If they are self insured... they can claim health benefits cost whatever they want to say. So they often inflate those numbers to show better "compensation". Example... say health benefits really only cost $250/mo.... dept will say it costs $1000. That will show up as "pay".
Meals, perhaps. Some contracts may provide for meal pay if working a certain amount of hours in a day. At least that would be the case for the Fire personnel with moderate amounts.
A lot of people in various State of CA agencies got a significant amount of "other pay" during the last couple of years. regingrobot makes a valid point about meals for firemen, and that is probably true. But I doubt it was meals for the agencies where everyone was working from home. I was thinking maybe it was equipment for their homes, like computers and cameras, that were deemed the employee's to keep versus having to return upon leaving the job?