L.A. Pilots Steer for $374,000 a Year While Long Beach Profits
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Los Angeles’s highest-paid city employees get three-day weekends, 27 vacation days annually and an ocean view from their workplace.
They are the port pilots, whose job is to guide ships in and out of the Port of Los Angeles, the number one container handler in the U.S. The 15 men earned an average of $323,000 last year, more than the mayor and the chief of police in America’s second-most-populous city. Harbor users, not taxpayers, pay their salaries.