ARE YOU NEW HERE? NOT LOGGED IN? PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO REGISTER FOR AN ACCOUNT AND LOGIN TO REMOVE THIS WINDOW
Welcome to PatsFans.com. Do you have an account? If not - please take a moment to register for our forum and experience a much smoother experience with fewer ads, along with no longer having to see this notification window. Also learn about how you can receive a free Patriots T-Shirt from the Patriots Official ProShop by CLICKING HERE. Please enjoy your stay here, and Go Pats!
MassPike: $2.2 Billion in debt, close to 200 make over $100,000 a year
Gotta love the gubmit. But hey, remember, it's going to be "FREE" once it's paid for.
Top pay just the ticket for turnpike troopers
By Joe Dwinell
Friday, January 23, 2009 - Updated 57m ago
As the Mass Pike shifts into crisis mode over how to wipe out $2.2 billion in debt, new payroll figures obtained by the Herald show almost 200 employees pulled in more than $100,000 last year.
And, nine state troopers assigned to the plum Pike beat top the list of the highest-paid in 2008 with all earning more than $200,000, payroll records show.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him." Leo Tolstoy, 1897
DONATE TO PATSFANS.COM
RECEIVE A FREE PATS T-SHIRT AND SAVE 15% OFF WHEN YOU BUY FROM THE OFFICIAL PROSHOP!
Free T-Shirt & Save 15% Off!
Like Our Site? Please help support our site and server costs by DONATING TO PATSFANS.COM and receive a FREE PATRIOTS T-SHIRT and SAVE 15% off EVERY purchase you make from PatriotsProShop.com. You'll also receive added benefits to your account including Removing All Ads During Your Experience Here At Our Forum.
NEEDED YEARLY SITE DONATIONS: 345 | CURRENT # OF SUBSCRIBED SUPPORTERS: 98
Re: MassPike: $2.2 Billion in debt, close to 200 make over $100,000 a year
The sad part of that is that making $100,000 a year in MA (at least eastern MA) isn't very much money for a family considering the cost of living here. I can hardly fault them those salaries. Now 200k is stretching things.
Re: MassPike: $2.2 Billion in debt, close to 200 make over $100,000 a year
Quote:
Originally Posted by apple strudel
The sad part of that is that making $100,000 a year in MA (at least eastern MA) isn't very much money for a family considering the cost of living here. I can hardly fault them those salaries. Now 200k is stretching things.
The Median Household income in Ma is 46K. If you start looking at Walpole, norwood, foxboro, westwood, etc, Ie the suburbs of boston, it goes up to above 60K.
$100K for one person in a household IS a lot of money, atleast to the vast majority of us.
Re: MassPike: $2.2 Billion in debt, close to 200 make over $100,000 a year
Well, we've figured out how apple strudel thinks. It's expensive to live in an upper end suburb in the western part of the state, so it's ok to have a road that is supposed to be free, filled with tolls, so long as it only pays the people working there $100,000 a year, and not a penny more dammit! You know, with all the job losses over the last couple of months in this country, maybe the gubmit could simply build a USAPike across the country That way, we could put everyone to work. Hey, it would pay them pretty good too.
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him." Leo Tolstoy, 1897
Re: MassPike: $2.2 Billion in debt, close to 200 make over $100,000 a year
Quote:
Originally Posted by Real World
Well, we've figured out how apple strudel thinks. It's expensive to live in an upper end suburb in the western part of the state, so it's ok to have a road that is supposed to be free, filled with tolls, so long as it only pays the people working there $100,000 a year, and not a penny more dammit! You know, with all the job losses over the last couple of months in this country, maybe the gubmit could simply build a USAPike across the country That way, we could put everyone to work. Hey, it would pay them pretty good too.
People deserve good salaries. At lest enough to send their kids to college, own a home, retire at a decent age, and take a vacation every now and again. So I can't fault them for that.
Re: MassPike: $2.2 Billion in debt, close to 200 make over $100,000 a year
Quote:
Originally Posted by Synovia
The Median Household income in Ma is 46K. If you start looking at Walpole, norwood, foxboro, westwood, etc, Ie the suburbs of boston, it goes up to above 60K.
$100K for one person in a household IS a lot of money, atleast to the vast majority of us.
Massachusetts is Median household income, 2004 $53,657.
I'd look at the Mass Pike as a corporation like mine. There is no way 200 people should be making over $100K. We have 1,200 employees and we "might have 75-100 making over $100k.
You just don't pay gov't workers the same level of pay as the private sector.
Re: MassPike: $2.2 Billion in debt, close to 200 make over $100,000 a year
Quote:
Originally Posted by Real World
Well, we've figured out how apple strudel thinks. It's expensive to live in an upper end suburb in the western part of the state, so it's ok to have a road that is supposed to be free, filled with tolls, so long as it only pays the people working there $100,000 a year, and not a penny more dammit! You know, with all the job losses over the last couple of months in this country, maybe the gubmit could simply build a USAPike across the country That way, we could put everyone to work. Hey, it would pay them pretty good too.
I think the strudel guy and syovia are a couple...kinda cute, aint it? They seem to travel in pairs and have each other's back.
Last edited by PatriotsReign; 01-23-2009 at 03:39 PM..
I'd look at the Mass Pike as a corporation like mine. There is no way 200 people should be making over $100K. We have 1,200 employees and we "might have 75-100 making over $100k.
You just don't pay gov't workers the same level of pay as the private sector.
If the government workers are unionized you pay them as much or more. Score 1 for the unions.
MassPike: $2.2 Billion in debt, close to 200 make over $100,000 a year
They seem to travel in pairs and have each other's back.
Linear Mode
