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According to a government waste watchdog, the top lifeguards in Los Angeles County earned nearly $400,000 each in 2019.
“Being a lifeguard in California can be unbelievably lucrative,” Adam Andrzejewski, chief of the watchdog group OpenTheBooks.com, wrote in a recent Forbes article.
Andrzejewski (pronounced An-gee_eff_ski) reviewed L.A. county records and found that the top seven lifeguards made up to $392,000 each in 2019.
But those seven were not alone in earning big dollars. “Overtime pay drove earnings into corporate executive range,” Andrzejewski noted.
“Thirty-one lifeguards made between $50,000 and $131,493 in overtime during the year,” Andrzejewski’s research found. “For example, Daniel Douglas (comp: $368,668; overtime: $131,493), Jaro Snopek (comp: $292,455; overtime:$119,669) and James Orr (comp: $281,270; overtime: $113,015)
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