More than 13% of workers at LA’s Department of Water and Power make more than $100,000.

As the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power seeks a hefty taxpayer rate hike, a Daily News review of salary data shows the average utility worker makes $76,949 a year - or nearly 20 percent more than the average civilian city worker.

More than 1,140 of the utility’s employees - or about 13 percent - take home more than $100,000 a year. And General Manager Ron Deaton, who is on medical leave, rakes in $344,624 a year - making him the city’s highest- paid worker.

DWP salaries are on average higher than city and far higher than private-sector workers’ even as the utility has come under fire for recent power outages and another round of rate hikes: A 9percent, three-year electric-rate hike and a 6 percent, two-year water-rate hike.

Here’s how it breaks down in real terms. The first figure is private sector salaries, the bold is DWP salaries:

Carpenter
$47,680
$74,165

Civil Engineer
$80,020
$122-128,000

Locksmith
$37,980
$79,176

And government will make healthcare more efficient?