"Why is there so much overtime pay?"
"Why not hire more employees to cut back on some of that overtime pay?"
"In almost every case, it's more financially sound for the district to pay an employee overtime than to hire an additional headcount,"
"Overtime is gonna happen. You can't run BART without overtime. But at the end of the fiscal year, you want to have your costs pretty close to what your budget was and not having these huge variances. But if you do have huge variances, being able to speak to that,"
BART incurred $80 million in overtime costs in Fiscal Year 2024, with 57 employees doubling their salaries through overtime. Individual cases include a station agent who worked 361 of 365 days in 2018 and earned over $114,000 in overtime and a janitor who made $276,000 with overtime. Overtime increases occurred via extra shifts, added duties, alternative schedules, and taking paid vacation or sick days. The Board of Directors agreed to accept OIG recommendations to better manage overtime, while some board members and the employee union criticized aspects of the report. Operational needs and budget variance explanations remain focal points.
Read at ABC7 San Francisco
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