Overtime pay more than doubled the base salaries of some Clark County firefighters, costing taxpayers more than $20 million in 2022, county pay records show.
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Minnesota attorney general found the company improperly changed rules there but residents say Nevada officials have done little to protect them.
A handful of administrators earned $100,000 at College of Southern Nevada in 2022, but the average pay was less than half that.
Before leaving CCSD this year, then-Superintendent Jesus Jara gave members of his executive cabinet significant raises, including a pay hike of 40 percent to the chief of police.
The pay ratio of the top boss to the typical employee shot past 100-to-1 at several companies with sizable holdings in Southern Nevada, including casino operators.
Billionaire casino developer Steve Wynn faced allegations of pressuring a waitress into sex about 30 years ago, allegedly telling his employee he had “never had a grandmother before” and wanted “to see how it feels,” according to a court document and interviews with the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Claims that Steve Wynn sexually harassed employees could have surfaced years ago but the Las Vegas Review-Journal in 1998 stopped publication of a story that would have brought the issue to light.