Outrageous..
No way in heck do they deserve those..And when u add in their Pension Bennies, it is Slap in the face of our working citizensa8

Wow, Mountain View must be a big country. It pays these important people more than United States Vice President ($233,000), senators, or representatives($174,000).
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with higher cost of living increase than most are getting.

Governor of California Jerry Brown $173,987
Lieutenant Governor of California Gavin Newsom $130,490
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla $130,490

Who knew that being the City Manager and City Attorney of Mountain View would be so much more valuable than being THE FREAKING GOVERNOR OF THE ENTIRE STATE OF CALIFORNIA!

The budget of mountain View is 80% public employee compensation. They say it's to retain talent, but I once worked for the City of Mountain View - the employees are just the same as they are anywhere - average.

We're all idiots for living in Mountain View.

Holy Sh!t! We should all be so lucky to receive a "one-time bonus of 42 hours of extra leave time!"

This is not what I had in mind when voting for Pat Showalter and the other council members who approved this.

We have dozens of city employees who make in excess of $200,000/year, yet our mayor votes against phasing in a $15/hour minimum wage over 3 years.

High-end folks paying upwards of $5,000/month for rent, while others are living in their cars parked along streets just a few blocks away.

You don't have to look far to see the growing divide between the haves and the have not's.

Shameful.

You voted for Pat Showalter? She is an overpaid career employee of the "Golden Spigot" (Santa Clara Valley Water District). What did you expect?

My girlfriend and I left Mountain View last year. We got a two-bedroom two-bath double wide trailer in Gainesville, Florida, for $9500. No drought here, no cancer-causing TCE contamination, either. It really is fun watching Mountain View rot. You deserve it.

I'll stand with our city staff. They've had a very busy year dealing with more development proposals and revisions than most cities in the country would see in a decade. If their performance has been good, I see no reason to oppose a cost of living adjustment to their compensation.

By my math, this is about a $10,000 / year raise for three city employees. $30,000 / year is not going to make or break the city budget.

By the way, the comparison to senators, vice presidents, even governors is misleading. Such public figures make more money from speaking fees, books, etc.

You make a lot of sense, I was looking at house prices on the eastern side and they are fraction of the prices we have here.

Plus Florida has no Income tax.

I'll be following your lead soon.

What did they do that makes them earn that type of money. Probably nothing.

@Jeremey Hoffman, are you a transplant from detroit, working at google?

"I'll stand with our city staff. They've had a very busy year dealing with more development proposals and revisions than most cities in the country would see in a decade." I think Google should pay for their salaries than, that is who they are appeasing, making this town a nightmare with all the people thy bring here.

Does anyone know what kind of hours these three work?

Either you pay public employees well or you grind them down and push them into the private sector, leaving you with cheap lemmings running the city. The cost of living is pretty high here, so it makes sense. It'd be lower if the stingy grinches above voted for more housing.

I'm a refugee from a red state; I've seen first-hand what happens when public employee salaries are micro-managed by an outrage machine. Shoo! You add no value to any conversation.

PS: Comparing skilled local govt employees to national politicians with a massive inheritance or corporate backers is a red herring. Go away.

Congratulations, now maybe YOU can afford to live here in Mountain View... others cannot!