Thanks to Tom Bazan for pointing out Rad Sallee’s follow-up story on Metro President Frank Wilson’s super-secret pay raise:
The Metropolitan Transit Authority revealed Thursday that the raise it voted for July 20 for President and CEO Frank Wilson brings his annual salary to $279,400, a 10 percent increase.
The raise is retroactive to May 1, the date of his employment in 2004. Wilson was hired at $254,000 a year with a five-year contract that allowed for increases. He did not receive a raise after his first year on the job.
The present contract runs through April 30, 2010, and includes pension and benefits, $1,030 monthly car allowance, five weeks’ vacation, two weeks’ sick leave and membership in the Houston Club.
Metro Board Chairman David Wolff refused to disclose the pay raise details when questioned by Sallee last month, so Sallee filed a Public Information Act request to get the information.
That’s a pretty nice salary for Wilson. It’s too bad his contract doesn’t stipulate that he should live within walking distance of the Main Street Danger Train line. What kind of a message does it send when Metro’s own boss doesn’t take the train to work, AND requires a car allowance??! Isn’t his car one more that’s clogging up the roads??
UPDATE (9:05 am): Michael Berry is discussing Frank Wilson’s pay raise on KPRC-950.
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