By David L. Harris, Associate Managing Editor, Boston Business Journal; February 16, 2018
One in three workers at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority earned $100,000 in total pay in 2017, according to figures released Friday by the transit agency.
In total, 2,026 MBTA workers out of a total workforce of 6,419 earned six figures last year, up from 1,800 in 2016. MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo told the Business Journal that the increase in $100,000 earners was a direct result of “an uptick in overtime spending, a direct result of the elevated level of state-of-good-repair work that was carried out last year.”
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