Speaking of Furlough Days

Here's a nifty little site that shows which aldercreatures took furlough days, how many, and who didn't take any at all. A sample:

• F. OLIVO (13th) - ZERO furlough days
• J. THOMPSON (16th) - ZERO furlough days
• B. REILLY (42nd) - ZERO furlough days

How many days are other city workers taking?

There are also a few comments that claim the aldercreatures who do take furlough days are only being charged 1/365th of their pay for those days and everyone else is being charged something along the lines of 1/260th. Does anyone have that link? It's supposed to be an out-of-town paper, maybe the New York Times making the claim.

Regardless, it's nice to see our elected officials sharing the pain...not.

UPDATE: Greatest Readers in the World!

Here's the link to the article we reference. It's just as suspected:

• But even the elected leaders taking furlough days are not feeling the pain of the recession as deeply as rank-and-file workers. That is because the Daley administration gives aldermen a break by deducting their furlough days from a 365-day schedule. Clout pays off again.

  Here is how the math works: If, for example, you are a snowplow driver, tree trimmer, secretary or other typical city worker, you have 261 work days a year. So each furlough day translates into a deduction of 1/261st from your yearly wages. Twenty-four unpaid days works out to a 9.2 percent pay cut.

  The mayor, the clerk, the treasurer and Council members, however, give up 1/365th of their annual salary for each furlough day. So an elected official would be subject to only a 6.6 percent salary cut.

Nice job, if you can get it.