Former high-level Los Angeles city employees continued to rake in high pension payouts in 2017, with a former assistant fire chief topping the list with his $1.38 million pension earning, according to data released this week by Transparent California.

The assistant fire chief, Donald Frazeur, was paid a lump sum of $1,171,994 in addition to his normal $212,730 annual pension because he took advantage of a program known as the deferred retirement option plan, or DROP, according to Transparent California.

DROP allows a public safety employee to earn a salary and a pension at the same time for as many as five years. During those years, the pension payments are put into an account where they collects interest. When the employee retires, the money can be withdrawn all at once or rolled over into an annuity.

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Frazeur’s pension was paid out at as part of the Los Angeles Fire and Police Pension system, which administers retirement benefits for the city’s public safety employees. Additional payout data for the system can be found at Transparent California’s website.

The next highest-paid public safety pension earner was former Deputy Police Chief Michael Downing, who received $995,845, in 2017. He was followed by former Deputy Fire Chief Joseph Castro, who earned $931,636 a pension, and former Deputy Fire Chief John Vidovich, who was paid $893,906. Former Fire Battalion Chief Jack Wise rounded out the top five with a $893,489 pension.

Transparent California this week also released the 2017 pension data for the Los Angeles City Pension system, which handles retirement benefits for non-public safety employees. The retiree who received the top pension payment last year was former port pilot Michael Rubino, who was paid $373,000. Rubino got a boost to his pension due to a significant amount of overtime pay that increased his final salary amount. He was one of the retirees highlighted in a 2016 Los Angeles Times report on the unusual overtime payment arrangements available to port pilots.