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It'd have been nice to anonymize this data. I know it's publicly available but we should respect people's privacy. I don't think having people's name adds anything interesting to this data set.
By the way, if anyone wants to know what Terry Tao, math extraordinaire, is making, you can also find that on the CA gov website.
Wow, some of these public servants make as much money as a 19 year old college dropout in Silicon Valley.
A college dropout can make a killing in Silicon Valley, if they are also: a talented software developer.
OTOH, some of the other dropouts might end up working as BART train operators, who seem to make between 12 and 15k/yr, which is likely for full time, in a city where it costs about 1/4 of that just to scrape by on a monthly basis.
It is not right to employ people at a wage that they cannot possibly subsist on. These people all ended up as bart train operators for one reason or another. Maybe they were lazy. Maybe they got shafted in life. Maybe they're dumb. But does that mean they should be paid a substandard living wage? No.
Meanwhile the luckier, more industrious, or combination thereof, are making over 10x the amount of the lowest paid workers.
Min wage needs to be raised, a lot. Look at Australia.
It'd have been nice to anonymize this data. I know it's publicly available but we should respect people's privacy. I don't think having people's name adds anything interesting to this data set.
By law, salaries of public sector employees are public knowledge. I think this is the same data that is seen here: http://www.mercurynews.com/salaries/bay-area?Entity=Bay%20Ar...
Whether your employer is the government or a private entity and whether or not you participate in a strike you don't deserve to have your financial data exposed.
Very interesting. How come there are a bunch of people with $0 base salary ? Are those contractors, interns ? Also, some of those low-base employees seem to have very high employer contributions to medical/dental/vision plans. How does that work ?
Conceivably some of it could be attributable to oddities of recently-retired/fired/resigned employees, but I'm sure not all of it.
I think this dataset is impossible to make meaningful sense of without much more information on BART's employment practices, possibly wider laws/regulations on California public employees, and more specific information about individuals.
This is just mean. Why don't you put your own name and salary up there for us to see, mariusz331? Whether your employer is the government or a private entity and whether or not you participate in a strike you don't deserve to have your financial data exposed.
Mean or nice doesn't have anything to do with it.
This is just mean. Why don't you put your own name and salary up there for us to see, mariusz331? Whether your employer is the government or a private entity and whether or not you participate in a strike you don't deserve to have your financial data exposed.
Usually the very, very generous retirement benefits drive high police compensation. Well paid overtime helps, too.