The Highest Paid Employees At Fremont City Hall

The 10 most highly compensated employees at City Hall in Fremont received between $277,000 and $377,000 each in salaries and benefits in 2012, according to a survey done by the Bay Area News Group.

At the top of the list was City Attorney Harvey Levine, who earned a base salary of $248,680 plus health benefits and pension payments for a total compensation of $376,675.

Six of the 10 employees worked in the fire department. Another was a police captain.

The BANG survey looked at the compensation of 279,017 public employees at 330 local agencies across the Bay Area. The employees earned a total of $17.6 billion in salary and benefits.

In a story in Sunday editions, the newspapers also detailed what is known as "pension pickups." These are situations where taxpayers pay the employees' share of their pension contribution.

These pickups have been negotiated in contracts. There are 63,000 public employees in the Bay Area who have receive this benefit. In all, the "pickups" totaled $221 million in 2012.

The newspaper listed 51 Bay Area agencies that pick up the pension contribution for all their employees.

Fremont is not one of the agencies.

The Union Sanitary District, which serves Union City, Newark and Fremont, was also on the list. It picked up the employee pension contribution for 141 workers at a cost of $795,460.

Also on that list is BART, which picked up the pension contribution for 3,373 employees at a cost of $17 million.

The Bay Area Air Quality Management District picked up 328 employees' contributions at a cost of $1.1 million.

Alameda County Administrator Susan Muranishi had $43,000 in employee pension contribution paid for by taxpayers. That was on top of $462,000 in gross pay and $118,000 in retirement contributions paid for by the county.