MTA Abuse

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• MTA Exorbitant Salaries
  MTA’s total personnel expenses amount to approximately 58% of their total expenses. The standard for a transportation business is 35%. This means that there are 23% excessive personnel expenses in their total expenses of $12.3billion. This amounts to $2.8 billion of excessive personnel expenses above the standard. Had the MTA eliminated these excessive personel expenses, the payroll tax never would have been needed.
  
  Excerpt from paragraph 45 of the MTA Payroll Tax Lawsuit -- The MTA continues to pay exorbitant salaries to its workers. A report from the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research dated June 24, 2009, reported the following facts about the MTA's payroll:
  "More than 10 percent of the MTA's workforce--8,214 individuals in all--took home $100,000 or more in total pay, including overtime. The MTA's six-figure club included:"
  
  • 10 employees who earned more than $250,000, averaging $102,000 over their base salaries
  • 44 employees who earned between $200,000 and $250,000, averaging $89,000 over their base salaries
  • 600 employees who earned between $150,000 and $200,000
  • 7,560 individuals who earned between $100,000 and $150,000
  • Eleven of the 654 employees who earned more than $150,000 in 2008 were Long Island Railroad car repairmen who earned an average of $206,000-which was $143,000 over their average base pay rate of $63,000
  • 62 Long Island Railroad and Metro-North Railroad conductors who averaged $83,000 over their base salaries which averaged only $82,000
  • 40 police officers averaging $79,000 over their average base pay of $90,000
  • 39 gang foremen averaging $87,000 over their average base pay of $79,300
  • 30 Long Island Railroad engineers averaging $103,000 over their average base pay of $73,000