See the DOE lab executive "Piggies" all in a row? This article below
about the high salaries of NREL executives pales in comparison to what
Directors, PADs, ADs, etc. at labs like SNL, LLNL and LANL make under
the hilarious banner of "cost-savings" from privatization implemented by
NNSA.
Several years ago the ABQ news reported that SNL's Director was making over $2 million and those executive salaries have only gone up, up, up!
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CO: Secret energy lab spawns million dollar govt employee
...Despite record federal debt, municipal bankruptcies and a nagging global recession, those executives enjoy pay packages that are out of reach of most Americans who pay their salaries. MRIGlobal and Alliance tax documents obtained by Watchdog show most earned well into six-figures:
Dan Arvizu, Alliance president and NREL director
2010: $928,069
2009: $691,570
2008: $652,159
Bobi Garrett, NREL senior vice president of Outreach, Planning and Analysis
2010: $524,226.
2009: $398,022
watchdog.org/62420/co-secret-energy-lab
-spawns-million-dollar-govt-employee/
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What's that you say? You only got a 1% raise for the last few years? Follow the money....
Several years ago the ABQ news reported that SNL's Director was making over $2 million and those executive salaries have only gone up, up, up!
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CO: Secret energy lab spawns million dollar govt employee
...Despite record federal debt, municipal bankruptcies and a nagging global recession, those executives enjoy pay packages that are out of reach of most Americans who pay their salaries. MRIGlobal and Alliance tax documents obtained by Watchdog show most earned well into six-figures:
Dan Arvizu, Alliance president and NREL director
2010: $928,069
2009: $691,570
2008: $652,159
Bobi Garrett, NREL senior vice president of Outreach, Planning and Analysis
2010: $524,226.
2009: $398,022
watchdog.org/62420/co-secret-energy-lab
-spawns-million-dollar-govt-employee/
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What's that you say? You only got a 1% raise for the last few years? Follow the money....
Comments
I remember the late 1990s when Director Sig Hecker at LANL made around $250,000 per year, didn't ride a luxury car paid for by the lab and was a valued and frequently seen member of the local community of Los Alamos.
Today, cloistered lab Directors are "comped" to the max by the LLC board with endless perks. Charlie McMillan is likely pulling down well over $2 million per year. You can be pretty sure he demanded a "substantially equivalent" match to the $2 million salary that SNL's Director was making over 3 years ago. While all this is happening, salaries of the lab staff stagnate for years, witholdings are rapidly increasing and the endless benefit cuts continue.
CORRUPTION!!!
about the large salaries.
Have the govt run the labs and you will get govt salaries, if it is the private industries, they will pay differently. So stop whining.
February 26, 2013 at 7:43 PM
Same as getting hired anywhere else - demonstrably great credentials and experience. Oh, that lets you out?...
"This is really hypocritical: First the right says we need to privatize the labs, and then when they are privatized, the same people complain
about the large salaries."
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Sorry but your argument is totally false. The labs were NOT fully privatized, the Government approves all management salaries at the labs.
No one can seriously claim that the director of a lab that tests solar cells and windmills should make anywhere near the amount of money that the director of a nuclear weapons lab makes. Such high salaries can only be explained by CORRUPTION!!!
Unfortunately, a Fed in the Obama administration did approve the exorbitant NREL salaries. The Fed responsible for NREL salaries is almost certainly a left-winger. Do you disagree?
the Government approves all management salaries at the labs.
And based on what is the following?:
No one can seriously claim that the director of a lab that tests solar cells and windmills should make anywhere near the amount of money that the director.
Its called free market. But you are probably not getting that one either.
And left-winger? as in contrast to right wing nut?
The labs are the antithesis of the free market. Sheesh.
Repeating the same point over and over does it not make better. It is like doing the same experiment over and over, and getting the same wrong result.
And maybe you will remember that the current setup of the lab organization has been done by:
G.W. Bush
a GOP controlled house
a GOP controlled senate.
So it was done by your friends and comrades.
I have worked at 4 different national labs before and after the corporate takeover and once the suits came in, the entitlement atmosphere in upper mgmt started.
While I have no problems with calling those salaries not justified, I have a huge problem with saying it is justified for this lab but not for that one.
It is in the eye of the beholder, what is a worthwhile cause and what not.
As long as you are trying to look at labs and their missions through ideologically colored glasses, you will also find something at fault in the one you don't like.
I thought this thread was about NREL. NREL wasn't set up by Bush, began operating in 1977 under your idol, Jimmy Carter.
Free market? Sheesh.