Spokane Fire Department Lt. Brandon Bacon’s base salary of more than $102,000 is already pretty good. It’s almost twice the median household income in the city.
But that’s not nearly as lucrative as what, in one sense, could be considered his second job: Working overtime for the city.
And every single one of them — Thomas, Archibald, Haughton, Heizer, and both Bacons — made over $200,000 last year. In 2021, skyrocketing overtime boosted at least 12 city employees over the $200,000 mark, and every single one of them was a firefighter or fire dispatcher… READ MORE
