This article and lots of the commenters are falling into the same trap that happens in every article about San Francisco. It states:<p>> In 2018, the city created a pooper scooper team, each member of which received annual compensation of about $211,000 that year.<p>The implication of a $211K salary sounds too ridiculous to be true. And instead of assuming that it is therefore false, people freak out. If you look up an actual article from the time [1], you'll see that the claim is already not true purely by the numbers:<p>> workers make more than $184,000 a year in salary and benefits<p>And if you dig in further you'll see that "and benefits" is a huge caveat:<p>> Employees of San Francisco's "Poop Patrol" are set to earn $71,760 a year, plus an additional $112,918 in benefits, such as healthcare and retirement savings, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.<p>That $112K in benefits includes health care benefits (which are mandated for city workers, which is a good thing). And health care—if you've been paying attention—is completely fucked in the US, so any attempt at pricing it is going to sound ridiculous. The workers don't actually see any of that money.<p>If you take the $72K in salary, you'll see that it is below average for San Francisco:<p>> On average, a San Francisco resident earns about $96,677 a year, nearly double the median household income in the US.<p>And "below average" is what you'd probably assume a sanitation worker makes. So a huge amount of outrage over nothing.<p>Which would personally lead me to flag this story, rather than trust any of the other numbers its quoting.<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-poop-patrol-employees-make-184000-a-year-2018-8" rel="nofollow">https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-poop-patrol-em...</a>