Thursday, July 08, 2010

Over 60% making over $100K in Chicago Aviation Dept.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
Mayor Daley likes to talk about cutting the city payroll to the bone, eliminating waste and inefficiency.

But you'd never know it by looking at the management flow chart at Chicago's Department of Aviation.

It includes a dizzying array of 49 boxes, each with a title and lucrative salary. Nearly 60 percent of those managers have salaries that top $100,000.
There's more:
"six layers" of top management and 17 assistant commissioners
Barack Obama's hometown.