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D3 visualization of San Francisco BART employees' salaries and union membership

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Re: D3 visualization of San Francisco BART employees' salaries and union membership

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Post by sadadar »

smtddr wrote: post #9

Hey, so... this is a sorta good time to ask. I assume this website's visualization was meant to spark some discussion. Do people on HN support/condemn the BART strike(s)? I've always been under the impression that the huge salaries being reported were some how an exaggeration. Because of this, I support the BART strike(s)... but perhaps my impression is wrong. Also, the strike doesn't impact me nearly as much as some…

I think the graphic is also fairly misleading starting with total comp instead of base salary or cash take home. I know when talking about my salary or how much I make things like value of my medical insurance is rarely something that comes up.

Re: D3 visualization of San Francisco BART employees' salaries and union membership

#13

Post by anonymoushn »

rmc wrote: post #12

USA is weird. How come you can get this data on people's personal lives? Why do you not have privacy laws?

They are public employees. Wouldn't it be a bit weirder to expect people to pay taxes without knowing what they were spent on?

Re: D3 visualization of San Francisco BART employees' salaries and union membership

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Post by wavesounds »

smtddr wrote: post #9

Hey, so... this is a sorta good time to ask. I assume this website's visualization was meant to spark some discussion. Do people on HN support/condemn the BART strike(s)? I've always been under the impression that the huge salaries being reported were some how an exaggeration. Because of this, I support the BART strike(s)... but perhaps my impression is wrong. Also, the strike doesn't impact me nearly as much as some…

I personally think hiring more BART employees and expanding the network (creating construction jobs) would be better then the current BART employees making more money (except for maybe those at the very bottom).

I also think they lost a lot of public support by striking. I think canvasing the platforms to appeal to the public while continuing operations would have been a better tactic.

Re: D3 visualization of San Francisco BART employees' salaries and union membership

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Post by vinhboy »

rmc wrote: post #12

USA is weird. How come you can get this data on people's personal lives? Why do you not have privacy laws?

The thing that bothers me is that it only has information for people working in government related jobs. For example, you can also get the name, salary, and title of all state workers. I find that kind of wrong.

Why not make the list anonymous.

Re: D3 visualization of San Francisco BART employees' salaries and union membership

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Post by smtddr »

sadadar wrote: post #11
smtddr wrote: post #9

Hey, so... this is a sorta good time to ask. I assume this website's visualization was meant to spark some discussion. Do people on HN support/condemn the BART strike(s)? I've always been under the impression that the huge salaries being reported were some how an exaggeration. Because of this, I support the BART strike(s)... but perhaps my impression is wrong. Also, the strike doesn't impact me nearly as much as some…

I think the graphic is also fairly misleading starting with total comp instead of base salary or cash take home. I know when talking about my salary or how much I make things like value of my medical insurance is rarely something that comes up.

Yes!!! That's something I really think is going on. I really want to know the base-salary; not the potential health-care, plus 401k, plus something-else, that makes it all look huge.

Re: D3 visualization of San Francisco BART employees' salaries and union membership

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Post by yannyu »

rmc wrote: post #12

USA is weird. How come you can get this data on people's personal lives? Why do you not have privacy laws?

Public employee salary is public knowledge: http://www.mercurynews.com/salaries/bay-area

As an aside, I think the hush-hush nature of salary is pretty silly to begin with, and really only hurts employees.

Re: D3 visualization of San Francisco BART employees' salaries and union membership

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Post by [deleted] »

vinhboy wrote: post #16
rmc wrote: post #12

USA is weird. How come you can get this data on people's personal lives? Why do you not have privacy laws?

The thing that bothers me is that it only has information for people working in government related jobs. For example, you can also get the name, salary, and title of all state workers. I find that kind of wrong. Why not make the list anonymous.

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Re: D3 visualization of San Francisco BART employees' salaries and union membership

#20

Post by wavesounds »

sadadar wrote: post #11
smtddr wrote: post #9

Hey, so... this is a sorta good time to ask. I assume this website's visualization was meant to spark some discussion. Do people on HN support/condemn the BART strike(s)? I've always been under the impression that the huge salaries being reported were some how an exaggeration. Because of this, I support the BART strike(s)... but perhaps my impression is wrong. Also, the strike doesn't impact me nearly as much as some…

I think the graphic is also fairly misleading starting with total comp instead of base salary or cash take home. I know when talking about my salary or how much I make things like value of my medical insurance is rarely something that comes up.

A lot of people I know have jobs that don't have medical or 401k's so its almost always brought up when discussing salaries around my neck of the woods.
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