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This is a hit-piece designed to get people to vote against the BART bond measure, nothing more. As the BART spokesperson pointed out: he is just signing up for

This is a hit-piece designed to get people to vote against the BART bond measure, nothing more. As the BART spokesperson pointed out: he is just signing up for shifts no one else wants. Does it matter who works those hours? It costs a bit more due to overtime pay but it doesn't factor into his benefits. The higher pay is also taxed higher so the ultimate cost isn't +50%/+100% for 50/50+ hours worked.

Johnny555 10y ago
If there are enough empty shifts to let a single employee earn 4X his base pay, then hire more employees and stop paying so much overtime. The higher pay is also taxed higher so the ultimate cost isn't +50%/+100% for 50/50+ hours worked What does that mean? It doesn't matter how much an employee is taxed, the employee's tax rate doesn't affect how much BART pays.
- xenadu02 10y ago
  It comes back to the state as revenue and to BART and the member cities as sales taxes. If you hire another employee are they going to want those hours or will they quit? Their benefits must also be factored in. Given he earned 4X it probably makes sense to hire at least one more full-time employee but you can't find new ones these days; housing is too expensive.
  - Johnny555 10y ago
    So maybe 10% of his salary goes to the state, and lets say that 1% of the state's budget goes to BART (it doesn't), so that's .1% of his salary. And if he spends 25% of his income on local taxable goods, and .5% of that goes back to bart, that's .125%. So about .225% of his salary makes it back to BART. Not much of a return. If BART wants to help return money to the community, they can ask for less money (taxes, bonds, fares), not use tax dollars and captive commuter fare money to pay employees 5 times a typical salary and count on some small percentage of that money to trickle down. A few months back my building hired a new janitor after their old one retired - the building manager literally had a line out of his office of people looking for the job. The Bay Area is expensive for sure, but even jobs like $50K janitorial positions still get filled.

Johnny555 10y ago

If there are enough empty shifts to let a single employee earn 4X his base pay, then hire more employees and stop paying so much overtime. The higher pay is also taxed higher so the ultimate cost isn't +50%/+100% for 50/50+ hours worked What does that mean? It doesn't matter how much an employee is taxed, the employee's tax rate doesn't affect how much BART pays.

xenadu02 10y ago
It comes back to the state as revenue and to BART and the member cities as sales taxes. If you hire another employee are they going to want those hours or will they quit? Their benefits must also be factored in. Given he earned 4X it probably makes sense to hire at least one more full-time employee but you can't find new ones these days; housing is too expensive.
- Johnny555 10y ago
  So maybe 10% of his salary goes to the state, and lets say that 1% of the state's budget goes to BART (it doesn't), so that's .1% of his salary. And if he spends 25% of his income on local taxable goods, and .5% of that goes back to bart, that's .125%. So about .225% of his salary makes it back to BART. Not much of a return. If BART wants to help return money to the community, they can ask for less money (taxes, bonds, fares), not use tax dollars and captive commuter fare money to pay employees 5 times a typical salary and count on some small percentage of that money to trickle down. A few months back my building hired a new janitor after their old one retired - the building manager literally had a line out of his office of people looking for the job. The Bay Area is expensive for sure, but even jobs like $50K janitorial positions still get filled.