Posted on 04/30/2018 6:53:01 AM PDT by Olog-hai
As BART’s ridership surged three years ago, along with the number of homeless people lingering inside its downtown San Francisco stations, the transit system doubled down on custodial work — and some of its janitors started cleaning up paywise.
One system service worker, BART’s title for janitors, made a little more than $271,000 in 2015, with $162,050 of that in overtime. A year later, two other BART janitors joined him in collecting more than $100,000 in overtime pay in a year.
Three years later — after the tale of the high-earning BART janitor became legend and the transit system, and the man himself, became an object of criticism — BART seems to be getting a handle on janitorial overtime, although a handful of its system service workers are still doing quite well.
Compensation data from 2017, obtained through a public records request, show that none of BART’s 138 janitors made more than $100,000 in overtime pay, although five of them made more than $100,000 in total pay compared with 50 in 2015 and 12 in 2016. […]
The public fallout over the amount of money BART was paying its janitors helped drive the decision to reduce overtime, said Alicia Trost, an agency spokeswoman.
“The general manager made a clear directive to rein in the overtime numbers,” Trost said. “We offered less overtime to employees and hired more cleaners.” …
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Srsly? Have you checked out the rental prices in sf and the surrounding area? Ya gotta make that kind of money to live out there. Or not.
Still a $100,000 for being a janitor + nice pension.
With subways this filthy, i didn;t even think they had janitorial staff.
They could hire 5 times as many people, at minimum wage.
Minimum wage plus benefits- that’s a decent job.
But who will clean up the feces and hypodermic needles?
The question is, were they really working, or just working the system with faked time cards? If they really worked that nasty job and that is the pay scale, then more power to them. If they were fraudulently claiming hours, they belong in prison.
Hire the homeless.
Not with the cost (monetary and wear and tear on the body) of commuting from somewhere that they can afford to live on that wage.
It is a government job.
There is almost no incentive to keep costs down.
Plenty of incentive to keep costs up.
$100,000 in overtime. Unreal.
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That was my first thought as well, that the COL is high, but A) no one has a gun to their heads, B) they don't have to live in SF, and C) if they've been careful with their money, they can relocate to a place outside of Calinferno after four or five years, basically set for life. Oh yeah, and D) they can be replaced by robots built in one of the nearby tech companies.
The title of this book is: If you are going to be a janitor, be the best one you can be. Or - the destruction wrought by public sector unions.
Oh no you di’int. Relocate outside calibfornia? And bring the “That’s not the way we did it in SF.” crap along? ;-)
Are the regular employees doing the jobs regular American citizens don't want? If I weren't retired now you could offer me one of these and I would grab it. As an executive all my working life, I never made more than $75,000 a year and was specifically exempt from overtime pay. I can't imagine that these janitors are subject to the same pressure and stress I faced everyday.
A massive wave of debt, in a completely printed, fiat currency, at near zero rates courtesy of the central planners at the Federal Reserve (and central banks everywhere) is washing over government budgets and asset markets.
Where that money creates bubbles is asymmetric, and as we know, there are a few spots, like California, particularly SF area, where that money is pooling.
It supports the leftists, their cronies in and out of government, and all their social engineering schemes in those places.
:^D
you can’t live in the Bay Area on minimum wage unless you live in a tent or camper, or someone else provides housing.
they are reining in their pay now with this example from 2015. Are they brain dead or awareness dead?? BART always paid a wage rate above the other services in SF area as far back as I can recall, but this, a base rate of over 100K for a janitor in 2015 is beyond the pale. Worse, some “managers” did not notice that someone had been paid almost 300K makes one wonder what the hell is going on that we are not being told: Kickbacks, inflated hours??
Side note: Circa 1985 BART tried to run trains at closer intervals to increase ridership. One problem, the commodore 64 data control, sarcasm, was not able to keep pace and the system virtually crashed. So, the braintrust said they would run fewer trains to increase on time performance. I wrote a simple letter to the editor which said BART will by its own admission run a perfect system when they run zero trains. The editorial page gave my letter top billing along with a cartoon showing zero trains on tracks with the title: Perfect system, no trains.
Who’s son or nephew was it that took home $271,000?
I doubt that it was Juan Doe.
And they claim no one wants to do this work.
With subways this filthy, i didn;t even think they had janitorial staff.
They don’t work, they just get paid.
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