The highest paid city workers transferring from general fund positions to the Department of Water and Power under threat of massive layoffs have gotten raises of up to 16 percent.

Responding to a request from OurLA.org, the Personnel Department provided a list Wednesday of the 11 highest paid employees who have transferred to the DWP, Harbor and Airport.

Nine have joined the DWP, one the Harbor and one the Airport.

Eight of the new DWP workers got raises of as much as $15,000 a year. One actually lost $4,000. Salaries at the Harbor and Airport positions pay the same as those the employees left that were paid out of the general fund, which achieved a saving of roughly $1 million from the transfers.

Shortly after Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced 1,000 city workers would be laid off,  it became clear that he and the City Council intended to transfer as many people as possible from the general fund payroll to special funds and the proprietary departments..

At last count, 406 workers out of the more than 2,000 who sought transfers have actually been reassigned.

The preliminary list supplied by the Personnel Department contained only salary ranges of the positions. Some of the transfers took place months ago.

Here is the list:

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• 2010-03-11 09:28:18 |76.168.89.xxx| Behzad  - Transfers
  The DWP's salaries are outragous. It is the goal of every city employee to transfer to DWP. We the rate payers can not sustain DWP salaries any more. Why does everyon has to make 100K at DWP? let's cut their asalaries by 30 % and make them equal to other city employees after all they are hired from the same list and have the same qualifications.
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• 2010-03-10 07:11:24 |134.201.253.xxx| Guest User  - Information is not correct
  I was given the link to this site by someone who saw my name as one of the people listed above. As such, I could tell you first hand that the information is incomplete, incorrect, and the motives listed for my transfer are not true. Since I was not contacted to verify this post, I can also assume that this may be true for the other people listed. The fact that the City of Los Angeles managers have a hard time making difficult decisions is painfully clear, especially to the people that work for the City. Many of us also live in the City and see the cuts from both sides. I have taken a cut in my salary, yet my property taxes, insurance, after school care, and general cost of living have gone up. Even parking at work is more expensive. I am grateful for my job because I still have a job. I do not make more money than a similar position in private industry, where I have also worked, and I am definitely feeling the pain of the poor economy.
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• 2010-03-10 07:06:06 |68.5.234.xxx| Guest User
  I am still waiting for an answer to the question of which employees went to which departments..... that you are unwilling/unable to answer brings the question of authenticity to your report.. Speak now or forever hold your peace.
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• 2010-03-09 11:25:13 |Author| Sandy Sand  - Yawn
  The unregistered commentor may be bored, but I'll bet 99% of city residents don't have a clue what's going on, and all this would be a surprise to them. All most people know about the DWP is the bill they pay every two months, something I've always objected to. Like poly-sci class, the ins-and-out of these things can be boring, confusing, difficult to sift throught and cause severe crossing of the eyes while reading...but nonetheless important, and the skullduggery that goes on in this city must be reported constantly if not in tedious detail if we are to make even half-educated decisions as voting citizens.
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• 2010-03-09 11:22:24 | |76.169.22.xxx| Walter Moore  - Walter Moore
  OUTSTANDING JOURNALISM, Ron! This should be on the front page of tomorrow's newspapers. This last Saturday night I ran into a guy who -- like most people -- reads no further the headlines. He told me he was glad Villaraigosa was finally laying off people. I had to explain to him that Villaraigosa wasn't really laying anyone off, just moving them around. Now you've revealed what "lay-off" means in Spring Street slang: PAY HIKE AT TAXPAYER EXPENSE.
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• 2010-03-09 10:45:35 |74.111.193.xxx| Joe Mama  - Dog therapist / Professional Politician
  Gee. Everyone who has lived in LA for any length of time knows that DWP always pays at least 10% more than the equivalent position in General Services. This goes for every position from a clerk typist to a senior manager. It has always been that way. You might as well write an article announcing that the days are going to get longer as summer approaches. Boring!
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• 2010-03-09 10:11:01 |68.5.234.xxx| Guest User
  SO which ones went to which departments?????
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