While issues such as income inequality, ideal wages and purchasing power continue to be the subject of discussion all over the world, a news from New York created a new agenda. According to the news shared by the New York Post, nearly 100 garbage collectors within the scope of the city’s cleaning department earned tens of thousands of dollars per person in a year.
According to the news shared, a total of 94 employees, including some managers, within the directorate, earned overtime income exceeding one hundred thousand dollars and even climbing up to 300 thousand dollars. An official speaking on behalf of the Directorate explained that the reason for this sudden increase in the wages of the employees was the personnel shortage and heavy snowfall in the COVID-19 outbreak.
They earned a total annual income of close to 300 thousand dollars:
On the other hand, Peter Warren, head of research of the Empire Center for Public Policy, the organization that monitors the administration, stated that the pandemic and the labor union in the city caused different negativities. Inefficient union work rules and high absenteeism have long contributed to high levels of overtime in the department, Warren said. He stated that the pandemic has aggravated these conditions, thus increasing wages.
To compare more than $100,000 in overtime wages alone, a worker in 2018-19 earned almost no income from overtime. In the 2019-20 period, this income climbed to 6 digits. Among the 94 workers, the 10 workers who earned the highest overtime wages were managers with a fixed annual income of $108,846.
Devon Graham, one of these executives and ranked 6th on the list, said, “It’s good luck, but it didn’t feel that way back then. ” he declared. Grahm earned $153,393 overtime wages on top of her $108,846 annual base income, with a total revenue of $282,153. So Graham earned an average salary of $23,512 each month.
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