Good for them. Emergency workers should be paid a living wage, and for SF $72k-$112k seems completely reasonable.<p>&gt; Firefighters are actually some of the highest paid city workers. In 2013, 31 of the top 50 earners were from the SFFD.<p>as the article you linked to mentions, this is largely due to one time payments due to people cashing out unused vacation and sick days when they retire.