Local In-Home Support Services workers and attorneys from the Public Defender and District Attorney’s offices urgently pleaded for higher wages at Tuesday night’s Shasta County Board of Supervisors meeting.
The IHSS workers, under the purple banner of Service Employees International Union Local 2015, currently earn $18.10 per hour. The minimum wage in California is $16.50 per hour. According to MIT’s living wage calculator, the living wage for one adult with no kids living in Shasta County is $23.44 per hour. That shoots up to $41.04 per hour for an adult with one child.
In Shasta County, public defenders and district attorneys are represented by the United Public Employees of California. As A News Café previously reported, the median salary for a new deputy district attorney is $127,000 per year. The starting salary for a deputy district attorney in Sacramento is $136,000 per year. In Shasta County, it’s $89,000.
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