"Hey Alice! We're movin' on up!"
Posted on 09/14/2010 10:22:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Last night the MTA said a fare hike by January is a near certainty. This will be the third fare hike since 2008, raising the monthly unlimited pass from $89 to $104.
Meanwhile, the MTA continues to pass major service cuts.
But what's really appalling here is how much transit workers get paid.
We're republishing data from SeeThroughNY showing that 8,074 MTA employees earned $100,000 last year. Fifty MTA employees earned more than $200,000 last year. And salaries are rising.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
50?
A large portion of teachers and even janitors make the same.
They have some nice graffiti, though :)
Hmm, interesting. 104 a month to take transit.
Daily commute M/F = 30 miles. I get by on about 2 weeks per tank. A tank costs me about 30 bucks.
So pay an extra 40 bucks a month to ride the bus? How about, no?
Nearly a billion dollars ($804,700,000) a year goes to a group of less than 10,000 people? That sounds like the American dream at work...
...then we need to realize that these people don’t actually do anything during their workday. They don’t make anything, they don’t provide anything, they’re just paid to sit around and send emails.
The issue here is unions. Now I understand why they’re fighting so hard to keep bloated union bureaucracies in play!
no job that doesn’t even require a high school education should ever pay more than minimum wage.
No taxpayer funded job. Free market otherwise.
The scene was basically dead by 1990.
$100,000 a year doesn’t go as far as you might think in NYC. a two bedroom apartment might rent for $3,000-$5,000/month. That’s the real problem in NYC IMO, the cost of living. Why is everything there so expensive? answer that and fix it and those salaries will come into line.
"Hey Alice! We're movin' on up!"
Wasn’t Jackie O’s rent controlled apartment something like the price you mentioned?
Ain't it the truth!! I hear these wages and I think back to my young days when you were lucky to earn a buck an hour. I remember being elated when the minimum wage went from a buck to a buck twenty five.
I also recall when Coke in a machine was a nickel and the pay phone in the drug store hangout was a nickel.
That’s nothing—try the Long Island Ripoff Railroad (LIRR).
One day round trip pass from Ronkonkoma to Penn station (about 30 miles) is $22.00. Monthly pass discount? Try $306.00 for Zone 10. Highest is $392.00 month for zone 14.
Nice chunk of change each month ay?
Depending on where you live in NYC, it is a $5.50 to $11 toll to enter Manhattan by car per day. There are free alternatives, but they add extra time and mileage.
Then, if you park in Manhattan, you need to pay $200 or more per month, unless you happen to work in one of the remote areas of Manhattan where you can get parking for $100 or so. You could also get free parking if you circle around enough, adding mileage and time - but frequently you would be stuck wasting a half hour and having to pay to park anyway.
IDK. I visited for the first time a while back though and was shocked at how expensive everything was. I would need to earn 5 times my current salary (or more probably) there to maintain the standard of living that I enjoy in Ohio.
Space is limited, a large part of the housing stock is under rent control which drives up the price of all other property, and there is extremely strong demand. Also, all the goods you buy in NYC - from groceries, to clothes, to alcohol are expensively imported into the city in small, inefficient batches (usually by van or box truck), since there are no freight hubs or major shipping facilities in Manhattan - despite the fact that both these amenities would be very easy establish.
My commute is one of the better ones in the city but If I were to drive to work alone every day instead of taking the bus:
-I’d be stuck in the crawling regular lanes for hours while the buses and full cars would go in the much faster HOV lane.
-I’d have to pay $20 in tolls every day to travel the same fast route as the bus.
-I’d have to rent a parking space for up to $500 a month because there simply is no parking during business hours.
Everyone driving to work in NYC and parking is simply impossible. The streets simply could not physically handle the traffic.
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