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