In response to complaints that the corporation is larded with highly paid managers, it has frozen some salaries and, it says, reduced its senior management payroll by 18 percent since August 2009.
It just boils right down to that". She said the senior center payroll, about $440,000 for five full- and about eight part-timers, amounts to nearly half of the roughly $850,000 budget.
Further, the city reportedly saved $23.8 million through cutting all "non-essential" city service contracts, $5.5 million through cuts to senior management payroll, $5 million through coordinating some functions of the city's Transportation and Water Management departments and another $5 million through "real estate and energy reductions".
This latter desire is what Cowan and Kessler deem to be the unforgivable sin, despite noting that a "growing cascade of baby boomers will be retiring in the coming years," and that the "problem is that since 2010 Social Security payouts to seniors have exceeded payroll taxes collected from workers".
Bartimpeks has no fewer than 17 former ministers and senior officials on its payroll.
COUNCILS across the country pay scores of senior staff off the payroll, despite repeated government demands for them to end the practice.
The company missed payroll for senior employees on Friday, Mr. Lane said, and had been trying to line up additional financing in the last few months, to no avail.
"When the universities must produce a certain number of Ph.D.s and have a certain number of tenured professors and senior lecturers on the payroll, the only thing left to cut down on is the number of posts for young researchers," says Robert Andersson of the Swedish Association of University Teachers (SULF).
Today, most seniors don't pay payroll taxes, and they have moderate incomes.
