SMUD salaries

SMUD officials are some of the highest paid public servants (if you can call them that) in Sacramento County.  Here are salary data from the California State Controller’s Office.

http://publicpay.ca.gov/AdvSearch.aspx

On that advanced search page put in 2013 or an earlier year (that’s all that works as of late November, 2015) and under “Entity” type in “sacramento municipal utility district”.  It will say, “Your search terms returned 2,229 results.”

Near the top right corner of the table under “Total Wages” click on the down arrow.  That will sort the results in decreasing order.

What you will see is something like this:

The information presented is posted as submitted by the reporting entity. The State Controller’s Office is not responsible for the accuracy of this information.
Position Entity Department/ Subdivision Total Wages
General Manager And Chief Executive Officer Sacramento Municipal Utility District General Manager’S Office $463,994
Chief Power Supply And Grid Operations Officer Sacramento Municipal Utility District General Manager’S Office $316,102
Chief Financial Officer Sacramento Municipal Utility District General Manager’S Office $313,877
Attorney And General Counsel Sacramento Municipal Utility District General Manager’S Office $313,244
Chief Workforce And Technology Officer Sacramento Municipal Utility District General Manager’S Office $260,771
Chief Customer Officer Sacramento Municipal Utility District General Manager’S Office $257,371
Director, Legislative And Regulatory Sacramento Municipal Utility District General Manager’S Office $245,346
Troubleshooter Sacramento Municipal Utility District System Operation and Reliability $245,099
Troubleshooter Sacramento Municipal Utility District System Operation and Reliability $234,905
Troubleshooter Sacramento Municipal Utility District System Operation and Reliability $233,387
Distribution Systems Operator II 1/ Sacramento Municipal Utility District System Operation and Reliability $233,273
Distribution Systems Operator II 1/ Sacramento Municipal Utility District System Operation and Reliability $230,321
Line Construction Foreman/Woman With Class A License Sacramento Municipal Utility District Work Performance Resource $228,780
Distribution Systems Operator II 1/ Sacramento Municipal Utility District System Operation and Reliability $216,980
Distribution Systems Operator II 1/ Sacramento Municipal Utility District System Operation and Reliability $216,522
Line Foreman/Woman Light Sacramento Municipal Utility District Work Performance Resource $216,386
Director, Customer Services Sacramento Municipal Utility District Customer Leadership And Business $216,138
Chief Assistant General Counsel Sacramento Municipal Utility District General Counsel $213,544
Director, Grid Planning And Operations Sacramento Municipal Utility District System Operation and Reliability $212,407
Troubleshooter Sacramento Municipal Utility District System Operation and Reliability $211,818
Senior Line Inspector Sacramento Municipal Utility District Work Performance Resource $210,722
Director, Information Technology Sacramento Municipal Utility District Technology Resource Center $209,931
Lineman/Woman With Class A License Sacramento Municipal Utility District Work Performance Resource $209,553

 

To find out the names behind these titles look at the SMUD website.

https://www.smud.org/en/about-smud/company-information/executive-management.htm

Here are the “executive management”:

  • Arlen Orchard
    Chief Executive Officer & General Manager
  • Frankie McDermott
    Chief Generation & Grid Assets Officer
  • Paul Lau
    Chief Grid Strategy & Operations Officer
  • Jim Tracy
    Chief Financial Officer, Finance & Enterprise Planning
  • Nicole Howard
    Chief Customer Officer, Customer & Community Services

 

  • Cindy Kelly
    Chief Information Officer, Information Technology
  • Gary King
    Chief Workforce Officer
  • Michael Gianunzio
    Chief Legislative & Regulatory Officer
  • Laura Lewis
    Chief Legal Officer