By Bethany Blankley, includes “… city employees annually earn $160,604 for cutting trees, the audit found. … city electricians earn earned $271,070; electrical line workers earned $307,387; and some police officers earned up to $414,543. … ‘Seattle’s long-term financial situation looks bleak,’ Andrzejewski writes … ‘The city has guaranteed $6.2 billion in retirement benefits to its workforce yet hasn’t funded $2 billion of those promises,’ pointing to TIA data.”