This report of CATA employee salaries and earnings for 2020 is presented by department in 3 lists:
I wasn't able to present all the information provided by CATA. In addition to gross earnings, regular earnings and overtime for each employee, CATA has 134 other earnings types (see list here). The gross wage figure is not simply the total of regular and overtime earnings. It is the total of regular earnings, overtime and all 134 other earnings types. Any one employee does not have amounts for all 134 earnings types. The most one might have is about 30. For some earnings types, there are no amounts for any employee. It is very complicated. You can view the file exactly as I received it here.
I have calculated average gross wage amounts for three job groups that had multiple employees and compared them with 2018 amounts. I eliminated anyone who didn't work the full year - anyone who was hired or terminated in 2020 - and anyone whose gross wage amounts were unexpectedly low.
I also compared gross wage amounts for 2018 and 2020 for 3 top executives:
It appears that the regular earnings and overtime earnings fields are not used for hourly workers in Operations and Maintenance. To calculate overtime and double time earnings for them, I added up the amounts for the earnings types OT and DT. If I counted right, there are 24 OT and 14 DT earnings types. Here is what I found: According to this February 26 article in the Lansing City Pulse, CATA is in the midst of contentious negotiations with the Amalgamated Transit Union.
I have reported previously on CATA wages, for 2016 and 2018.
I emailed my FOIA request for 2020 wage information to CEO Brad Funkhouser on February 27 of this year. When I didn't get a response, I called on March 12 and talked to Executive Assistant Tina Orlando, who had me re-send the request. She emailed me on March 17 to report that she could not find my request and suggested that I send it as a reply to her email, which I did. But to be safe, I also printed it off and sent it by mail. On March 22, I sent another email to Tina asking if they'd received my email. No response. But I did get a call from Tina a few days later saying she'd received my letter and would have the file to me in a few days. I got it on March 31, well within the 5 business day deadline. And when I reported that hire date was missing, they fixed it and got it back to me the next day, April 1. |
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