As the BART spokesperson pointed out: he is just signing up for shifts no one else wants. Does it matter who works those hours? It costs a bit more due to overtime pay but it doesn't factor into his benefits. The higher pay is also taxed higher so the ultimate cost isn't +50%/+100% for 50/50+ hours worked.
The higher pay is also taxed higher so the ultimate cost isn't +50%/+100% for 50/50+ hours worked
What does that mean? It doesn't matter how much an employee is taxed, the employee's tax rate doesn't affect how much BART pays.
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.
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.
Here are the top Bay Area public sector salaries for anyone whose job title includes "janitor"
http://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=Janitor&...
BART custodians are "system service workers" in their nomenclature
http://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=System+s...
This is what happens in a government subsidized monopoly.
I've worked terrible jobs for terrible pay. I can remember being forced to call Uber to get to these terrible jobs when BART decides they want to protest over their pay.
No, this doesn't make me happy and their 'service' is sub par.
It seems unfair to me that teachers, or people who work in education and other, usually low paying, public service jobs gets exposed like this.
If they want to embarrass people for abusing their public sector job, then we have public officials, who head these departments and ultimately responsible for the salaries, to scold. No need to name individual employees.