When it comes to work, you might think the higher your position, the higher your pay.
Not at the Honolulu Fire Department.
Currently, assistant chiefs make more money than deputy chiefs, even though they’re lower in rank, and the department wants to change that.
It’s asking the city’s salary commission to bump up the pay for deputies and the fire chief to establish a 5-percent pay gap between the positions, so deputies would get paid about $10,000 more and the fire chief would get paid $11,000 more.