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Alameda County rewards boss: $400k…for life Alameda County supervisors have really taken to heart the adage that government should run like a business — rewarding County Administrator Susan Muranishi with the Wall Street-like wage of $423,664 a year. For the rest of her life. According to county pay records, in addition to her $301,000 base salary, Muranishi receives: – $24,000, plus change, in “equity pay’’ to guarantee that she makes at least 10 percent more than anyone else in the county. – About $54,000 a year in “longevity” pay for having stayed with the county for more than 30 years. – An annual performance bonus of $24,000. – And another $9,000 a year for serving on the county’s three-member Surplus Property Authority, an ad hoc committee of the Board of Supervisors that oversees the sale of excess land. Like other county executives, Muranishi also gets an $8,292-a-year car allowance. Muranishi has been with the county for 38 years, and she’s 63. When retirement day comes, she’ll be getting a lot more than a gold watch. That’s because, according to the county auditor’s office, Muranishi’s annual pension will be equal to the dollar total of her entire yearly package — $413,000. She also has a separate executive private pension plan, for which the county chips in $46,500 a year. To find out more about how Muranishi wound up being the highest-paid county administrator in California, read here. |