[JumpCrisscross]

The average MTA employee made $70 thousand in 2010 [1]. That’s nearly $80 thousand today [2].

In those data, one sees Mr. Arthur Harkin, a Long Island Rail Road conductor, made $195,000. ($220 thousand in 2017 dollars.)

[1] https://www.empirecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/MTA-...

[2] https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=69.489&year1=2...

[ForHackernews]

> The average MTA employee made $70 thousand in 2010

So about the same as the average CRUD app developer? This doesn't seem outrageous to me.

[geodel]

But CRUD app developers are most precious resources on earth. Other people should not really exist after providing services, food, security and on demand rides etc.