Package: mbtasalary
MBTA Salary AnalysisYear 2015 data thanks to Matthew Rocheleau, the Boston Globe staff reporter on the22 Dec 2015 MBTA overtime article.extract text tables from PDF using Popplerpdftotextload with Pandaslook for interesting aspects of the data.For example, in 2014, the top MBTA earner was a Technician with an
estimated $145 K of overtime on top of an $89 K salary. Excessive
overtime can be a concern for worker performance and safety in any
field, with possible drastic consequences for the public when working in
sensitive areas like transportation and medicine.The Washingtonian published a 9 Dec 2015articleby Luke Mullins and Michael Gaynor that explores at length issues with WMATA and overtime abuses.Backpay is excluded as it represents a retroactive increase in base salary for the previous year.
Backpay is last year's pay, paid out this year.ExamplesWe currently have 2013-2015 salary data. Other trend analyses may find
it useful to request prior years data.2015 MBTA SalaryMBTAsalaryEMP-2015-Gross-Bpay-Ovt.xlsx2015yields plots and the output:Highest earning MBTA staff $256080 in 2015 was a Foreperson,Section,
including estimated $171257 overtime.typemaxmedian90thsubtotnumsignal182049117083151384> 2e+07> 157maint256080> 97309134881> 2e+081743ops145266> 96538113948> 1e+07> 128police203553> 93684136959> 3e+07> 271heavy178438> 80498103964> 5e+07> 678bus-ft120281> 75542> 91287> 1e+081304subway158950> 73563> 94860> 4e+07> 628bus-pt> 54738> 40934> 49124> 2e+07> 410rest231589> 87497122225> 1e+081149all256080> 82319118860> 5e+0864682014 MBTA SalaryMBTAsalaryWages2014.txt2014yields plots and the output:Highest earning MBTA staff $235194 in 2014 was a Technician,Power
Equip, including estimated $145401 overtime.typemaxmedian90thsubtotnumsignal179689110775127210> 2e+07> 155police221910107261165080> 3e+07> 259maint235194> 95772131344> 2e+081727ops138506> 93504115208> 1e+07> 131heavy224458> 90492120647> 6e+07> 670bus-ft196809> 88447109504> 1e+081337subway185242> 84203111710> 4e+07> 576bus-pt> 66435> 33326> 52231> 1e+07> 345rest220000> 86463129061> 1e+081132all235194> 89251123618> 5e+086332MBTA 2013 SalaryMBTAsalary"FOIA 14-11 final.txt"2013yields plots and the output:Highest earning MBTA staff $238770 in 2013 was a General Managertypemaxmedian90thsubtotnumsignal164161109078122121> 1e+07> 139police205400108173162941> 3e+07> 245maint209113> 87132113655> 1e+081705ops127287> 82337> 98121> 1e+07> 131heavy154684> 72266> 99978> 5e+07> 654bus-ft192440> 69327> 87284> 9e+071279subway133214> 66729> 87589> 3e+07> 517bus-pt> 53263> 34434> 42247> 1e+07> 358rest238770> 78120112847> 9e+071098all238770> 75818108951> 5e+086126Obtaining Salary DataYou will need to download and convert the salary data first.
Each year's format is a little different.2015 Salary DataWe obtained this data from Matthew Rocheleau, the Boston Globe staff reporter on the 22 Dec 2015MBTA overtime article.
We anticipate a request for the whole year 2015 data once we're into 2016.2014 Salary DataDownload 2014 MBTAsalary dataExtract text from PDF:pdftotext-layoutWages2014.pdf2013 Salary DataDownload 2013 MBTAsalary dataExtract text from PDF:pdftotext-layout"FOIA 14-11 final.pdf"The last three lines of this .txt file are missing a space between the salary and "2013".
Just open in a text editor and manually add one additional space before 2013 in these last three lines.