Sunday, February 14, 2010
TTC - Paid much?
Alison posted this link on Facebooks: Reported TTC salaries, which includes salaries of people making > $100k.
In fairness, the TTC has 11k employees, and only 500 who make > $100k - so ballpark 5% of their employees. Obviously the big honchos, the shift supervisors, the lawyers, etc are going to make some big coin. The thing that gets me?
- 21 Station Collectors at > 100k, some making as much as $125k.
- 19 Route Supervisors @ > 100k, one making $132k. I'd assume these are the guys who stand around at Spadina Station with little notepads, or that stand in the middle of the street drinking coffee.
- 60 "Operators" @ > 100k, 20 of whom make > $120k. I can only imagine that operators is a fancy word for drivers. You absolutely have to be kidding me that streetcar drivers can be raking in $130k/year!?
Cause here's the thing....you really can't hire competent station collectors for $40k/year? These people sit in a booth, reading books and making change. Not saying it should be minimum wage, but honestly, a cashier at Loblaws is a WAY harder job, having to remember all the codes for the different vegetables, knowing how to bag things properly, etc. Certainly seems to me like $20/hr would cut the mustard.
Drivers? Listen, I respect them an awful lot...especially during rush hour, there's a lot of crap to put up with. You've got people's lives in your hands, get hassled by rude jerks, and you presumably need some kind of training and license to drive a streetcar/subway/bus. But, I did some digging, and an average social worker in Canada makes $28/hour while the average nurse makes $32. (Truck drivers make an average of $19). So given that nurses make ~$60k/year, I'm real curious to know what those 20 drivers are doing to rake in twice that (I'm assuming they worked a lot of overtime, but still...and if you're regularly paying people time and half for overtime, why aren't you just hiring more drivers that you can pay at "time"?).
Anyways, just seems to me when you're running an organization that doesn't nearly cover its costs, and keeps having to jack fares and look for bigger handouts from the government, that you've gotta look at ways to cut the fat. And all those collectors and drivers at > $100k? Seems like there's plenty of fat to trim.
In fairness, the TTC has 11k employees, and only 500 who make > $100k - so ballpark 5% of their employees. Obviously the big honchos, the shift supervisors, the lawyers, etc are going to make some big coin. The thing that gets me?
- 21 Station Collectors at > 100k, some making as much as $125k.
- 19 Route Supervisors @ > 100k, one making $132k. I'd assume these are the guys who stand around at Spadina Station with little notepads, or that stand in the middle of the street drinking coffee.
- 60 "Operators" @ > 100k, 20 of whom make > $120k. I can only imagine that operators is a fancy word for drivers. You absolutely have to be kidding me that streetcar drivers can be raking in $130k/year!?
Cause here's the thing....you really can't hire competent station collectors for $40k/year? These people sit in a booth, reading books and making change. Not saying it should be minimum wage, but honestly, a cashier at Loblaws is a WAY harder job, having to remember all the codes for the different vegetables, knowing how to bag things properly, etc. Certainly seems to me like $20/hr would cut the mustard.
Drivers? Listen, I respect them an awful lot...especially during rush hour, there's a lot of crap to put up with. You've got people's lives in your hands, get hassled by rude jerks, and you presumably need some kind of training and license to drive a streetcar/subway/bus. But, I did some digging, and an average social worker in Canada makes $28/hour while the average nurse makes $32. (Truck drivers make an average of $19). So given that nurses make ~$60k/year, I'm real curious to know what those 20 drivers are doing to rake in twice that (I'm assuming they worked a lot of overtime, but still...and if you're regularly paying people time and half for overtime, why aren't you just hiring more drivers that you can pay at "time"?).
Anyways, just seems to me when you're running an organization that doesn't nearly cover its costs, and keeps having to jack fares and look for bigger handouts from the government, that you've gotta look at ways to cut the fat. And all those collectors and drivers at > $100k? Seems like there's plenty of fat to trim.
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# posted by Greg @ 8:40 AM 
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I was talking to someone at work about this, and they think that most of the people making over 100K are likely doing a lot of overtime.
I'm not sure why there would be enough "overtime" for people to earn 40K extra a year.
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I'm not sure why there would be enough "overtime" for people to earn 40K extra a year.
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