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If he were working at a private organization, I'd say "good for him" - but since he's working for an essential public agency that receives significant tax fundi
by Johnny555 10y ago
If he were working at a private organization, I'd say "good for him" - but since he's working for an essential public agency that receives significant tax funding then it's a little less equitable when the janitor earning $40K/year at a small office in SOMA is paying taxes and BART fares to help pay someone in his same position 5 times higher salary.
That doesn't mean that the employee is to blame, this is purely a problem with BART management -- instead of paying one person 4X normal salary for a job (even if he's working 100 hours/week, that's still "only" 2.5 times a single worker), they should have hired 4 workers for that job, or if it's transient work that doesn't need a full time worker, then hire a contractor(s).
- pech0rin 10y agoNot sure it's a comparable job. Working at a small office is Soma is a much better gig than Bart. You would definitely have to pay me at least 4x more to work there than a small office job.
- Johnny555 10y agoIndeed.com says the average janitor earns $28K in SF, I'm sure there are plenty of those janitors that would take a $50K+ job at BART. http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=janitor&l1=san+francisco&tm=1 http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=janitor&l1=san+francisco&tm=...
- kamaal 10y agoThis might be both good and bad news, based on how you look. If one can overtime their way to 2-4x avg salary, so can anybody. The question is do you want to. If the answer is no, blaming the guy working hard to make 4x the base salary is unfair. Plus there is no social contract that if one worker makes less, so should others. You can't force people to be lazy, you can't force them to be hardworking. A lot of times the world is fair, and you get what you deserve.