The Washington (DC) Metro Area Transit
Authority is in trouble. Its equipment is in disrepair and it is broke. Why?
Well, consider this.
The most common WMATA job, a bus operator, requires a driver’s
license and a high school diploma or equivalent. The job pays an average
of $63,000, with extensive benefits and overtime pay.
This salary is 57 percent higher than the national average for transit system
bus drivers ($40,160) and 66 percent higher than the average salary of
a non-transit bus driver in the area ($38,000). With overtime, WMATA bus drivers can earn
more than $100,000 a year. Wages and
benefits consume nearly 78 percent of its operating budget, and
the share would be larger still if Metro properly funded its employee pension
liabilities. Metro spends $3.10 in labor costs for each passenger trip,
compared with $1.92 in New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority and
$1.88 in Boston’s Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
Anyone have an idea about how they might
save some money? Anyone? Buehler? Anyone?
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