San Francisco municipal overtime spiked $18 million over budget in the first year of Mayor Ed Lee's administration - with one Muni mechanic raking in an extra $163,856.Bolding is mine.
Khoa Trinh, who heads the Muni signal shop, more than doubled his base of $106,036 by clocking in 1,954 hours of overtime - which is roughly equal to working an extra 40 hours a week, every week, at $83.85 an hour.
Add in more than $23,000 in premium pay and shift differentials, and Trinh's salary for fiscal 2011-12 totaled $293,370. [snip]
While Trinh was tops in OT earnings, Muni Transit Supervisor Evette Geer-Stevens clocked the most hours - with 2,262 hours of overtime, for $147,446.
According to Reiskin, Geer-Stevens is one of the supervisors you often see on street corners, keeping an eye on the buses and trains - and helping out in emergencies.
Last year, 10 Muni supervisors made more than $100,000 in overtime - bringing their pay to $200,000-plus apiece.
Overall, Muni had 22 of the city's top 25 overtime wage earners. The transit agency was the biggest overtime buster in the city, at $55.7 million - far outpacing the usual leaders like police and fire.
I shudder to imagine what would happen to all the commuters and everyday working people if there were no public transit system at all for, say, a full week. But it's annual reports like this that make me join the rabble crying to dismantle the entire system, fire everyone, and replace it with rehires who are required to interview and a new organization with strong benefits for its members, but also deep penalties for failure to meet basic benchmarks. And zero tolerance for the overtime shell game that has been going on for more than a decade.
The growing sentiment I hear on the street, as we wait, has been a "Kill them all and let God sort it out" attitude toward Muni management. More news like this and I am likely to join the Torch and Pitchfork Party too.
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