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How do you hire someone for a city's transport agency who has the ability to manage a multi-billion dollar construction project? Anyone with those skills will s
by bradleyjg 4y ago
How do you hire someone for a city's transport agency who has the ability to manage a multi-billion dollar construction project? Anyone with those skills will surely be able to earn 10x more in the private sector.
NY/C governments overpay low skilled workers (especially once benefits and work rules are factored in) and dramatically underpays highly skilled workers. Since there are a lot more unskilled roles, fixing the one problem would free up plenty of money to fix the other.
- nunez 4y agoA lot of that money feels like hazard pay, if you ask me.
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- bradleyjg 4y agoA cop or a bus driver, sure. But why is the janitor at a city hospital making twice what one at a private hospital makes (inc benefits) while a doctor at a city hospital is making half what his private sector counterpart does?
- tbran 4y agoSome crane operators in NYC apparently make up to $500,000!! Kind of crazy that some skilled work pays so much. That may be fine, but makes me wonder if any planners/civil engineers/whatever are making anywhere close to that. From 2011: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303936704576399563008284024 https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303936704576399...
- kube-system 4y agoThose are private sector jobs, no?
- bradleyjg 4y agoSort-of. There’s a tangled weave between the union and the licensing authorities. On top of that various tax and zoning considerations often force the use of union trades on building projects in NYC.
- kube-system 4y agoBeing union or having regulated labor doesn’t make someone a public sector worker.
- slackdog 4y ago> Some crane operators in NYC apparently make up to $500,000!! Not totally crazy when you remember how much weight they're dangling above people's heads. If they fuck up they could cause dozens of deaths and many millions of dollars worth of damage in a split instant. The damage a civil planner can do is more subtle and long-term, not quite as easy to recognize and understand as a crane collapsing onto a crowded street. Still, that's more than (most? any?) airline pilots make. But maybe with some NYC cost of living adjustments it's not such a large gap.
- xxpor 4y agoThis is part of the reason the majority of high rise projects in NYC don't use cranes. It's insane.
- hackrnusr 4y ago"ability to manage a multi-billion dollar construction project" Some of them apparently graduate with degrees in "project management" from schools like this: https://foundrycollege.org/about-us/team/ https://foundrycollege.org/about-us/team/ ... so don't overestimate the talent here.