Top Paid LA Lifeguards Earned Up To
$392,000 In 2019
Forbes,
by
Adam Andrzejewski
Original Article
Posted By: OhioNick,
3/29/2021 1:37:40 AM
Being a lifeguard in California can be unbelievably lucrative. If we had only known, many of us would have packed our bags and headed west for a career on the California beach.
Our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com found that lifeguards make a fortune in Los Angeles County. Seven lifeguards made more than $300,000 and 82 lifeguards had total earnings that exceed $200,000 in 2019, the latest year available.
Fernando Boiteux was the most highly paid and earned $391,971. As the “acting chief lifeguard,” he out-earned 1,000 of his peers: salary ($205,619), perks ($60,452), and benefits ($125,900).
Reply 1 - Posted by:
smokincol 3/29/2021 1:45:32 AM (No. 738037)
certainly puts a new spin on being a "lifeguard"
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Trigger2 3/29/2021 2:17:21 AM (No. 738054)
No wonder CA is so expensive. Money wasted.
9 people like this.
Thank goodness they don't earn $400k because Joey and the tax machine would be really on them.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Safari Man 3/29/2021 2:57:54 AM (No. 738076)
More government employees getting rich of the middle class.
17 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 3/29/2021 7:34:29 AM (No. 738144)
Oh, those wonderful "public servants."
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/29/2021 8:39:28 AM (No. 738211)
In most parts of the country you can have a degree in a good technical profession and not reach 200 grand. No wonder the golden state is broke and falling apart.
12 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
VietVet68 3/29/2021 9:33:18 AM (No. 738253)
Is it any wonder why blue states are always in fiscal trouble? I can hear the politicians in California now...."We can always raise their taxes to make up any shortfall". This will work until all the makers are gone and all that's left will be takers and politicians with nobody left to tax.
7 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 3/29/2021 9:59:27 AM (No. 738273)
Beach Blanket Bingo!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
john56 3/29/2021 10:32:36 AM (No. 738297)
Did the "acting chief lifeguard" actually save any lives that year?
I'm guessing unless someone was drowning at the office water cooler, the answer is no.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
planetgeo 3/29/2021 11:09:05 AM (No. 738340)
This is just the tip of the beach blanket...ALL government employees are now grossly overpaid, either via salary or benefits or retirement. Those of us in private jobs are now tax slaves for their lavish compensation packages.
There needs to be a real tax revolt and a major rollback and downscaling of ALL public compensation packages. They are out of control and are driving the country into bankruptcy.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/29/2021 11:21:08 AM (No. 738349)
Those who live in the flat square states do ot understand the many miles of California beaches, the treacherous Pacific Ocean, and the enormous crowds that are on the beaches throughout much of the year. Ocean rescue of a drowning person or persons is extremely difficult work. First the lifeguard has to see that they are in trouble…
When we consider what useless men in bureaucrats’ suits are paid, lifeguards are a bargain.
Not sure what Adam is up to but I’ll bet he’s never even been on a California beach… and note that his big number is prefaced by “up to” and includes all benefits. When you are figuring total compensation, the basic salary is increased by about 40%.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 3/29/2021 11:44:53 AM (No. 738375)
That's ok. They paid most of it back through state income taxes and property taxes.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
joew9 3/29/2021 12:35:21 PM (No. 738417)
In 1964 I spent the summer training lifeguards for the Red Cross and didn't get paid a nickel.
The lifeguards(once I trained them) got paid minimum wage.
I was too young to actually be a lifeguard but there was no age limitation on trainer.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/29/2021 12:52:41 PM (No. 738434)
Re #13, were those pool lifeguards? They are paid significantly less than ocean lifeguards. And the training is quite different… Not done by Red Cross.
Interested? This year’s tryouts are pretty much over, but there’s always next year. Here are the locations and what is required:
http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=30304
Because, in addition to rescuing struggling swimmers they are called upon to do things like this (FTA):
Macko jumped into the rough waters in a remote Palos Verdes gorge and pulled a man to safety through potentially skull-crushing swells and over razor-sharp rocks. Most of his rescue was captured on video and shows why he earned the honor.
The 2019 Valor award winners, Ocean Lifeguard Specialists Shaun Gudmundsson (comp: $165,761) and Ruben Carmona (comp: $194,919), “performed an extremely dangerous nighttime water rescue” of two trapped fishermen from hurricane-caused rising tides and surf.
Another 2019 Valor winner, Jon Van Duinwyk (comp: $238,434), singlehandedly rescued a 70-year-old man trapped inside a 25-foot sailboat during a huge storm surf off Dockweiler Beach. The lifeguard “risked his life to enter the vessel, extricate the elderly man, as the boat was breaking up in the 8 foot shore pound.”
Intrepid Adam, the reporter, thinks he ought to head for California and become a wealthy lifeguard. (I’ve never known one.)
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 3/29/2021 1:03:45 PM (No. 738445)
Hmm. When I worked as a pool lifeguard, about a million years ago, I got free pool access and I think $2 a day, maybe $3.
None of the massive, widespread insanity in California is shocking any more. Everything is crazy and bizarre in Cali. Everything.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/29/2021 1:24:14 PM (No. 738463)
Golly! Some of you guys are already experienced. Why not give it a try?
TO QUALIFY: All applicants are required to complete the following:
1 Pass a COMPETITIVE swimming test at a listed location consisting of the following:
2 - 1,000 yard open water swim. Time limit of 20 minutes.
3 - A continuous 200 yard run, 400 yard swim, 200 yard run. Time limit of 10 minutes.
4 Qualification appraisal interview.
5 Successful completion of the California State Park Lifeguard Training Program.
6 Successful completion of Field Training Program.
8 DAY PAID TRAINING IN:
Public Safety First Aid, CPR, AED
Open Water Lifesaving Techniques
Aquatic Search and Rescue Procedures
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Mauigirl 3/29/2021 6:41:03 PM (No. 738752)
A lifeguard saved me from drowning in the Atlantic when I was six years old.
Pay them whatever they want.
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