Next time you pass through the New Jersey Turnpike, you might want to ask the worker for a loan. Auditors recently found millions in unwarranted bonuses to workers on the New Jersey Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway. A total of $43 million was found wasted.
One worker stands out in the report. The worker had a $73,469 base salary but earned $321,985 with payouts and bonuses. At that salary, he or she could have been a manager in Bell, California.
The audit also found that the improper bonuses were not even tied to actual performance. It is easy to see how you can inflate your salary from the details of the report. For example, employees were first paid overtime for working holidays and removing snow. They were then given bonuses for working holidays and removing snow. There was even nearly $90,000 for scholarships for workers’ kids. Then there was the money paid for a “toll operators event” that lacked only one thing: toll operators. No one actually went to the event but it was still paid for by the Turnpike.
The Turnpike has announced the need to increase tolls in 2012.
Source; Land Line
Have you ever noticed that the states with the highest number of people living in poverty are states with very few union members?
No can’t say that I have
Swarthmore mom
Just like you don’t want everyone to blame Obama you just can’t blame the Republican Governor. You have to look who’s in control
Democrats
Have you ever noticed that the states with the highest number of people living in poverty are states with very few union members?
There has been a republican governor in California for 8 years bdaman. That might get fixed this time. Jerry Brown is for change.
There are nearly 500 state highway patrol officers making $150,000-a-year or more. 500. Which means just those fine folks alone are costing California’s taxpayers about $100 million annually.
And, best I can tell, there are about 10,000 people employed by the state highway patrol system. Ten-freaking-thousand. And 5,200 of those public employees make over $100,000 annually.
Just a guess, but from perusing the database, it would appear that the average salary is about $110,000.
Which means the CHiPs system costs California’s taxpayers $1.1 billion in compensation alone, to say nothing of facilities, retirement payments, vehicles, etc.
But go ahead, Californians, just vote for Jerry Brown and more Democrat union cronies. Things couldn’t get worse.
Could they?
When I was a kid I use to want to be an Airborne Ranger and live the life of danger. Turns out I should have wanted to take money from other people only to protect the innocent.
Robert D Carter
CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL C
$344,280.09
$189,236.55
$172,689.20
Michael R Teixeira
CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
SERGEANT, CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
$304,477.03
$162,043.50
$151,008.20
Alan R Carson
CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
ASSISTANT CHIEF, CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
$298,806.85
$164,412.00
$144,131.15
Mary E Rennie
CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
LIEUTENANT, CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
$297,951.25
$132,671.00
$124,312.00
Patricia A Shearer
CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
CAPTAIN, CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
$286,431.51
$131,582.61
$119,853.40
James E Mclaughlin
CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
CHIEF, CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
$285,390.67
$177,102.00
$159,028.00
Charles J Chellew
CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
CAPTAIN, CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
$284,129.53
$147,040.00
$136,623.00
Mark S Bakios
CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
LIEUTENANT, CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
$276,429.84
$131,141.00
$123,868.80
Robert E Clements
CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
ASSISTANT CHIEF, CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
$273,358.72
$168,048.00
$160,279.47
James G Kerr
CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
SERGEANT, CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
$264,664.91
$132,207.14
$126,154.81
Mark A Mcaffee
CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
SERGEANT, CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
$263,481.99
$140,083.82
$137,326.00
Kim R King
CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
ASSISTANT CHIEF, CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
$263,025.21
$169,948.09
$153,236.29
Roderick R Sloan
CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
SERGEANT, CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
$259,039.26
$122,989.16
$122,595.59
David C Webb
CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
CAPTAIN, CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
$257,463.91
$146,910.00
$138,773.89
Deborah A Vertar
CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
CHIEF, CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
$251,978.74
$175,008.00
$158,723.20
Jose Vizcarra
CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
LIEUTENANT, CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
$249,452.11
$99,335.64
$123,659.83
Vincent A Lambres
CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
SERGEANT, CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
$245,508.60
$217,683.49
$197,179.72
Wayne E Liband
CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
LIEUTENANT, CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
$241,364.97
$132,191.00
$124,169.00
Renee K Difronzo
CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
LIEUTENANT, CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
$241,236.03
$128,073.85
$124,127.60
Michael V Shaw
CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
SERGEANT, CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
$241,194.34
$174,267.26
$149,510.50
Sean P Barrett
CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
LIEUTENANT, CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
$240,786.80
$131,471.00
$125,312.00
Steven Anaya
CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
SERGEANT, CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
$240,602.73
$146,571.84
$126,034.83
Ronald J Rogers
CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
SERGEANT, CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
$237,504.36
$140,860.91
$119,578.03
William A Coop
CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
OFFICER, CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
$235,159.43
$154,734.71
$94,676.05
Robert A Stephens
CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
SERGEANT, CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
$232,959.83
$122,055.95
$114,121.03
Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/statepay/?name=&agency=CALIFORNIA+HIGHWAY+PATROL&salarylevel=#ixzz1302LiXGN
Why?
Both equal broke.
Lets see,
New Jersey = Unions = Democrats
California = Unions = Democrats
So that’s where all the money for toilet paper went.
I am with Rick Perry and GeoII, Privatize the road ways…Yep…use government authority and take property and Privatize….then you are not accountable to how you spend the money….just too bad I am to on the receiving end….
But then again…we could in a few years take over the toll roads just like we did the Railroads and in the late 1800’s….That was when the Roosevelt family lost fortunes over fortunes….and the TR became President and then his cousin FDR became President….and took certain measures to assure that this type of behavior did not happen again…..Greed…Money…Transportation…ah ha…little did he know corporate greed know no bounds….
We can’t forget the bowling league either,I invite all to come to my garden state,so we can keep our workers happy.
“The audit shows toll- and taxpayers picked up the tab for such perks as free E-ZPass transponders, scholarships for workers’ kids and an employee bowling league. The audit showed some Turnpike Authority employees got overtime plus bonuses for working holidays and their birthdays. Some were paid bonuses on top of overtime for removing snow, a routine job function.”
http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/jerseycity/index.ssf?/base/xclude/1287555946198540.xml&coll=3
Is the NJ Toll System separate economically from the State? Is it a political subdivision of NJ? Maybe Christie can stop slapping around teachers and go after the toll booth operators for restitution.
What a state. This would make a Chi-town fraudster blush.
Law school, law schmool.
That kind of money almost makes it worthwhile to move to Jersey. Any openings at the tollway authority??
A few NY school custodians make even more.
Two wrongs make a wrong.
Sounds to me as if these toll booth operators are good candidates for upper management, they already know all the essentials, the importance of a feeling of being entitled to remuneration!