I worked at Trimet for 15 years and never made more than $35k so the concept that everyone that works there is getting high pay is false. This is from their internal site:
Q: With the TriMet budget crisis, why did non-union administrative staff get raises?
A: Administrative employees, except those who received promotions,(the union talked about that. This is how many executives got around the so called 'freeze.) had not seen any increase in their pay for 3.5 years. (they had been claiming 4, now all of a sudden its 3 1/2)In fact, their paychecks had gone down,(haha, like ours you mean? I've lost 25% of my pension and these a-holes are whining?) because they have been paying a larger portion of their health care premiums. The non-union salary freeze was lifted in the middle of 2012 for our 420 administrative staff. This decision cost less than 1/5th of 1% of our $473 million annual operating budget and the average increase was 3% per employee. (this excuse for wasting money is nonsensical. The idea that just because its a small part of the overall budget that means its ok is laughable) This is the same increase union employees were receiving at the time. There are a lot of decisions that go into building the TriMet budget. Last year’s decision about admin salaries should have made more clear and will be in the upcoming budget process.(they tried to hide the salary increases and they took them out of the emergency contingency budget which is appalling. Plus there are ethics questions now about the so called actual budget document)
A: Administrative employees, except those who received promotions,(the union talked about that. This is how many executives got around the so called 'freeze.) had not seen any increase in their pay for 3.5 years. (they had been claiming 4, now all of a sudden its 3 1/2)In fact, their paychecks had gone down,(haha, like ours you mean? I've lost 25% of my pension and these a-holes are whining?) because they have been paying a larger portion of their health care premiums. The non-union salary freeze was lifted in the middle of 2012 for our 420 administrative staff. This decision cost less than 1/5th of 1% of our $473 million annual operating budget and the average increase was 3% per employee. (this excuse for wasting money is nonsensical. The idea that just because its a small part of the overall budget that means its ok is laughable) This is the same increase union employees were receiving at the time. There are a lot of decisions that go into building the TriMet budget. Last year’s decision about admin salaries should have made more clear and will be in the upcoming budget process.(they tried to hide the salary increases and they took them out of the emergency contingency budget which is appalling. Plus there are ethics questions now about the so called actual budget document)
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