The RTA's top paid employee was agency CEO Mark Donaghy, whose gross pay of $218,709 was higher than the pay at any of roughly two dozen area cities, townships or counties analyzed by the I-Team so far.
Donaghy's pay in 2009 was $184,743, making him then the highest paid among transit officials at seven peer transit systems or the larger Cleveland and Columbus systems. That was according to a Dayton Daily News investigation in which Donaghy said he was working to reduce bus driver overtime spiking pay to six figures.
The RTA declared victory in 2013, after a year in which the highest-paid driver earned $77,400.
"Those days are long gone," RTA union president Glenn Salyer told the I-Team of bus drivers making $100,000.
The top-paid bus drivers last year each earned more than $30,000 in overtime.
The five highest-paid RTA employees last year were:
1. CEO Mark Donaghy: $218,709
2. Bus driver Herbert Long: $117,056
3. Chief Performance Officer Eugene Rhodes: $116,436
4. Chief Financial Officer Mary Stanforth: $115,251
5. Chief Capital Officer Robert Ruzinsky: $113,913
Local governments make payroll with your money. That's why the I-Team is using Ohio public records laws to assemble and analyze payroll data for governments across our region.
Go here for a growing database of government employees who made more than $50,000 in gross compensation last year and in 2014.
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