When California started footing most of the bills for trial courts in 1997, judges from Alpine to Los Angeles — and every county in between — essentially became long-distance colleagues, with identical salaries set by the Legislature and state-paid benefits including health care, retirement plans and regular trips to the dentist.

But a decade after California shifted court funding from counties to the state, trial court judges are worlds apart when it comes to job-related perks.

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