New database shows $12.2 billion in Bay Area public employee salaries

Contra Costa Times reports:

A hospital administrator in Alameda County, a deputy police chief in San Francisco and a physician in Santa Clara County grossed more than $500,000 each in pay last year — the top three 2009 salaries in a database containing 200,000 public employees now available online.

Nancy Farber, chief administrator of Fremont's Washington Hospital, earned $847,811.36; Charles J. Keohane, grossed $516,118.49, in his final year as a San Francisco deputy police chief, including $352,000 in cashed-in vacation and compensatory time; and Dr. Jana Dolnikova of Santa Clara County's Valley Medical Center, grossed $507,748.68.