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Fraud, waste, and the worlds worst purchasing work. NYCT workers are well paid, but that is only an explanation for high operating expense, not obscene capital
by hapless 8y ago
Fraud, waste, and the worlds worst purchasing work.
NYCT workers are well paid, but that is only an explanation for high operating expense, not obscene capital expenses.
Operating expense is really fairly well managed, albeit with unusually high wages. It is a small, small part of the subway’s problems.
- vkou 8y agoThe unusually high wages can also be attributed to a city with an incredibly high cost of living, and large number of overtime hours. Train conductor base pay is $23-30 an hour - the six-figure salaries that you read about are for people doing >40h/week, including night shift/holiday/on-call work. I generally think that it's reasonable that people who do more work get paid more then people who do less work... Or that people doing the same work during hardship hours get paid more then people doing their 9-5.