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I got an awesome tweet this morning in regard to the BART strike that just wanted to share:

@cjc: Average BART employee salary is $83K/yr. A teacher with 10 years of experience in San Francisco makes $50K/yr. Who's striking again?

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I'm assuming that average that you're posting is just the average of all the salaries listed in the data provide. This includes all the administrators (as far as I can tell). To be a useful comparison, you'd have to include all the salaries of the administrators OR only average the union workers with 10 years of experience (or whatever is the equivalent of a teacher with 10 years of experience).

Interestingly, where did this person get this data? Is it publicly available?

http://www.sfusd.edu/en/assets/sfusd-staff/contract%20and%20...

http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/local/talks-between-bart-union...

Since she's an ex-googler, I would hope it wasn't broad speculation, those are her sources.

My stand on BART though is that they provide a very critical service to the Bay Area. So they have a lot leverage in their hands since the strike is being felt throughout the entire bay and all professional classes. I disagree that it should be happening if their pay is that high.

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