A prison surgeon walked away with $456,002 before taxes
state employees were paid a total of $300 million for unused vacation days when they retired last year, reported the LA Times.Many of California's public employees receive aMore than 450 California state employees retired with six-figure bonuses last year when they cashed out unused vacation time, the Los Angeles Times' Melody GutierrezCalifornia cut checks worth a total of nearly $300 million to retiring employees in 2018, a Times analysis of state payroll data found.
The state formally caps total vacation balance at 640 hours, but little enforcement of the rules and an increase in the number of retirees has led to a 60% leap in the number of six-figure payouts since 2012, Gutierrez reported. A prison surgeon in California walked away with the biggest payout — $456,002 before taxes — last year, while a government transportation engineer received about $405,000, which was boosted by a 4% raise he received the year before he retired, according to the Times. The payout was more than two times his annual salary.
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