Kevin Woster of the Rapid City Journal weighs in on Schwangate:
Did you see the news out of Sioux Falls earlier this week? Mayor Dave Munson has a new chief of staff - at $98,000 a year.
Actually, it’s $98,758.40. But who’s counting? (Sniff. Sniff.)
Well, me for one. Bill Harlan for another.
See, the new chief of staff for the state’s largest city is Jodi Schwan, a 26-year-old reporter for KELO-TV.
I don’t know Jodi, but people tell me she is a solid TV reporter, a bright and likable young woman expected to be good for the mayor’s office and its communication with the outside world.
Based what I know about news reporters’ salaries (sniff, sniff), I’d guess Jodi will be enjoying about a tripling in salary to go to City Hall. That puts her in the same salary neighborhood as Harlan and me - if you either add our salaries together (with a bit of Denise’s thrown in), or simply define “neighborhood” as roughly the size of the North American Continent.
I’m not saying Harlan and I are jealous. We’re seasoned journalism pros - if you define “seasoned” as old enough to be useful in carbon dating. (Kranz, you know what we’re talking about…)
Anyway, Bill and I aren’t about to get upset about little things like unfavorable salary comparisons.
Besides, we don’t have time to be jealous. We’re too busy sprucing up our resumes to send to Jim Shaw.
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