Some controversial statistics are revealed in the Chronicle's database of BART's top earners. Read 'em and weep. (Caveat: I compiled these numbers myself based on a quick-and-dirty perusal of the data.)
Just 17 of the top 100 earners are women.
Of all employees making over $100,000 in gross pay, 29 percent are blue collar workers, including electricians, train operators and vehicle inspectors but excluding police.
121 of the 716 employees earning more than $100,000 (or 17 percent) are police, which accounts for nearly half of the total BART police department of 296 personnel. According to the SFPD Public Affairs Office, a beginning San Francisco police officer makes $80,000; a SFPD lieutenant makes up to $141,414. Five BART lieutenants have base salaries higher than that, with overtime earning as much as $227,692.
With some high stakes blunders in recent memory and increasing pressure for public oversight, BART police salaries seem particularly bloated.
Indeed, officer Tony Pirone, who threw a punch in the Oscar Grant incident, earned $112,500 last year. Even Johannes Mehserle, who was later fired and charged with murdering Grant, took home $103,300 with overtime pay. He had been on the force for just two years.
Posted By: Cameron Scott (Email) | August 25 2009 at 12:24 PM
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