"The highest-paid employee of the Detroit People Mover last year was a maintenance worker who earned $174,602 — more than triple base salary — thanks to substantial overtime, according to records obtained by a conservative newsletter.
Michigan Capitol Confidential, the news site of the conservative Mackinac Center for Public Policy think tank, received the salary information through a public records request filed with the Detroit Public Transportation Corp., the agency that runs the People Mover...
Here's what the newsletter found:
- The highest-earning employee, an "electronic technician II," made $174,602 — $117,382 more than the employee's base salary of $57,220.
- Three of the four maintenance shift supervisors took home six figures while having an annual base salary of $61,131: one made $105,456; another, $135,395; the third, $161,368.
- Four people with the title "mechanical technician" also made significantly more than their base salary of $46,404, with two earning six-figure amounts — $111,182 and the other $105,109 — and two just shy of 100,000, making $94,322 and $95,184.
- Two "system control operators" earned $102,729 and $100,962, while having base salaries of $53,144.
By comparison, the People Mover's general manager made $119,565.
...Alexander said that the agency did not overspend its budget but did spend 16 times more than it earned in revenue from user fares.
...The People Mover costs $25.4 million to operate, according to National Transit Database.
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