Posted on 04/30/2018 6:53:01 AM PDT by Olog-hai
As BARTs 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, BARTs 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 BARTs 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfchronicle.com ...
The controversy surfaced in 2016 when Transparent California, a watchdog group, publicized system service worker Liang Zhao Zhangs $271,000 pay in the previous year, calling it outrageous and irresponsible.BART claims that none of the other
Zhang quickly gained international fame, or infamy, as news outlets, cable TV commentators, New York and London tabloids and websites blasted him and BART. KTVU reviewed surveillance video and reported that Zhang took overly long breaks behind closed doors in a room at Powell Street Station.
BART officials said then and now that Zhang legitimately earned his pay by working long and hard and completed the work expected of him. He managed to rack up so much overtime by accepting nearly every extra shift offered, either because seniority required that it be offered to him or because no one else wanted the additional hours.
How much would it cost the city to clean all the human crap off the sidewalks?
I wouldn’t even think of moving to the SF/Silicon Valley area for anything less than 500k a year. And likely would require much more.
Not only that, but if the $162,050 was pure overtime, that means regular yearly pay is $108,950, or over $50 per hour.
The one who got $271K in 2015 was seen on surveillance cameras taking excessively long breaks behind a locked door. BART still backed him up.
That’s hazard pay.
They should be paid much more! (Break the libturd bank!!)
They have to have a PhD in Environmental Engineering to collect the special SF crap.
“Minimum wage plus benefits- thats a decent job.”
Where?
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for a janitor? anywhere
Cameras catch BART janitor who made $270,000 in a year spending hours in Powell St. closet
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/BART-janitor-pay-270000-Powell-St-questions-10911932.php
BART janitors get paid regardless of whether they show up for work or not.
Not to mention, much of that was “earned” while locking himself in a closet and goofing off, but BART still backs him up and claims he did everything that was required of him. (They didn’t tell him to come out of the closet.)
It's just government money anyway.
Yup, just more IOUs.
why pay your janitors $271,000 a year when there’s still sh*t and trash all over the train stations? The astronomical wages sure haven’t incentivized any cleanup ...
https://medium.com/the-secret-history-of-america/shitty-san-francisco-42e0aeae47d4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_0gr-oT-iM
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/26/broken-bart-escalators-poop_n_1706716.html
http://sfist.com/2016/04/15/bart_board_approves_3_million_for_e.php
So, a janitor makes $109K a year? What a gig.
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