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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
by 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 agoSo 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.