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- Dec 28, 2014
Wait a minute a Minneapolis city council member gets over 100k a year? For what?
You gotta be fucking kidding me, that's more than a Brigadier General in Germany gets short before he retires (~85.000euros ) which is also roughly the same amount a city council member in Berlin (population 3,7 million) gets.
Minneapolis (pop: over 400.000) is comparable in population size to Nuremberg (pop: over 500.000) which pays its city council members exactly 20.196 euros anually.
Jesus guys seriously one could think all of your city councils are just giant self-enrichment centers.
Welcome to local democracy in Murrica. Minneapolis isn't even extremely bad as such salaries go. That's high, but there's lots worse in terms of useless fucking elected officials getting paid outrageous amounts.
Some data:
"Los Angeles has the highest average salaries for council members, $178,789, and San Antonio has the lowest, a maximum of only $1,400 per member. The average council salary in Philadelphia is $121,107, fourth-highest out of the 15 councils studied."