![]() ![]() ![]() In Chicago's mass transit system, "we're OK with the wages we receive. transit systems received significantly smaller increases, or no pay hikes at all, in contracts that came up for renewal in late 2008 or early 2009, Dash said. "It was sort of a birthright a few years back that everybody gets their 3 percent" annual raise. "The current five-year labor contract at the CTA was negotiated in the glory days before the recession hit, and many transit agencies subsequently imposed wage freezes," Dash said. Dash & Associates, a consulting firm that works with the CTA and other major mass transit systems. "Add that up and see how much we are underpaid." The good pay comes from good timing, said Greg Dash, president of John A. We are expected to be police, homeland security, lost and found, maintenance, doctor and psychiatrist for the public," Mojarro said. "We are verbally and physically attacked every day. CTA bus driver Pat Mojarro said transit employees "are worth at least $150 an hour" because of the responsibilities and potential dangers of the job. Drivers strongly defend their pay at a time when the transit agency's management is demanding they give up raises and take furlough days to close a budget deficit and end cuts that slashed bus service by 18 percent in February. 1 when the Consumer Price Index was taken into account. That was the case in 2008 as well - before the last two CTA pay raises - when an internal study by the Amalgamated Transit Union, the labor union that represents CTA bus drivers, ranked CTA drivers No. But the rankings catapult CTA bus drivers to elite status - the highest-paid in the nation - when the cost of living in the Chicago area is compared with the Boston and San Jose markets. Dash & Associates, a transit research firm in Havertown, Pa. The top hourly salary for bus drivers at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority in Boston leads the industry, at $30.18 while the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority in San Jose, Calif., pays bus operators with the most seniority $28.86 an hour, according to John A. CTA bus drivers trail only their counterparts at two transit agencies operating on opposite coasts. transit agencies, according to an analysis conducted for the Tribune. ![]() At $28.64 an hour, the top wage rate for Chicago Transit Authority bus drivers ranks third-highest among U.S. ![]()
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