The city of Redlands also contributed $55,864 toward the former employee\u2019s retirement and health benefits, bringing the final compensation to about $1.26 million.<\/p>\n
By comparison, the combined compensation of the mayors of Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego is about $1.2 million, including retirement and health benefits, according to the data<\/a>.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for the Redlands Police Department could not immediately be reached for comment Friday.<\/p>\n The news about the Redlands employee, first reported by the San Bernardino Sun<\/a>, came to light last month following the state controller\u2019s scheduled publication of city-level compensation data.<\/p>\n The controller\u2019s office began tracking the salaries of public employees in 2010 amid the revelation that leaders in the working-class town of Bell<\/a> in southeast Los Angeles County were receiving some of the largest salaries in the country.<\/p>\n Since then, the state agency has been collecting and publishing the compensation data of more than 2 million workers across more than 5,000 public agencies \u2014 including special districts, universities and state departments.<\/p>\n In publishing the data, the agency provides a snapshot<\/a> of the highest-paid employees in the state, though it does not identify workers by name. After the Redlands deputy police chief, the second-highest-paid employee in 2025 was a Los Angeles Fire Department battalion chief, followed by a transmission and distribution supervisor with the L.A. Department of Water and Power, according to the data.<\/p>\n Although the state agency does not identify the employees, Transparent California, a nonprofit database of public employee pay, identified the Redlands worker as Travis Martinez. <\/p>\n Travis Martinez, seen in an undated photo.<\/p>\n (Redlands Police Department)<\/p>\n According to Redlands\u2019 city records<\/a> and the Redlands News,<\/a> Martinez retired last April as part of a $871,956 settlement agreement related to a whistleblower claim against the city. <\/p>\n Martinez could not immediately be reached for comment Friday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Redlands deputy police chief topped California\u2019s public payroll in 2025, taking home $1.26 million in total…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":927767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2451,374234,374235,205698,374238,2961,224,2444,5337,1812,156471,16931,2750,50201,374236,374237,17253],"class_list":["post-927766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-city","tag-datum-show","tag-ex-redlands-police-deputy-chief","tag-health-benefit","tag-highest-paid-public-employee","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-losangeles","tag-office","tag-redlands","tag-salary","tag-san-francisco","tag-state-agency","tag-state-controller","tag-travis-martinez","tag-worker"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116901246949112633","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Travis](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783771336_390_.jpeg\")
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