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Oct 29, 2024

L.A. parking meter techs seek pay raise

Another group of Los Angeles city employees is pushing for a pay raise. Parking meter technicians say their job, which used to be a low-tech position, has evolved, and they believe they deserve

Another group of Los Angeles city employees is pushing for a pay raise.

Parking meter technicians say their job, which used to be a low-tech position, has evolved, and they believe they deserve compensation to match.

A modern parking meter is the equivalent of a small computer, and technician Serena Mobley tells KNX News' Craig Fiegener that the city's outdated job description, created in 1991, needs to change, along with the pay.

"Parking meters were gears and springs and things like that. Purely mechanical," Mobley said. "Now, everything is digital and computerized. They want you to be knowledgeable about computers and have at least two years of experience repairing and installing that type of thing."

Serena is part of a small group of employees pushing the city to revise the old job description to reflect the parking technician's responsibility more accurately and bring the pay up from $27 to $38 an hour.

The group says it would put Los Angeles parking meter tech jobs on par with what the jobs pay in San Francisco.

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