FLIP SIDE: For every Orange County executive...

FLIP SIDE: For every Orange County executive on the top-salaried list (D1), there’s a crowd of middle managers either unemployed, self-employed or working multiple jobs, says executive placement specialist William K. Ellermeyer of Irvine. . . . “Companies once might have carried people who were 50% productive. They don’t now. I’d estimate a third of middle management jobs have disappeared in the last few years, and another third may go by the year 2000.”