NYP– School custodians are cleaning up — in the hallways and in their paychecks — because the city doesn’t want to hire enough of them.
Custodians took home an average pay of $109,467 in the 2013-14 school year — and 634 of the city’s 799 custodians earned more than $100,000 in salary and overtime during that time, city payroll records show. more
Let me guess, they are unionized?
The only comfort I take away from this is that they have to daily scrub away the brown smears off the wet porcelains.
Holy ****, I’m a teacher–I make nowhere near that or any of the inflated wages you hear about.
109K? I’m in the wrong business.
are the janitors all women studies majors?
and someone said you couldn’t make any money with such a degree.
“Custodians possess licenses needed to operate and maintain a school building, including credentials for boilers, heating/air conditioning and fire sprinklers and alarms.”
To be fair they do a little more than lean on a mop.
On the flip side, while the money is nice, it’s New York. Yes, I want that kind of money, but not if I have to live and work in New York to get it.
After union dues, taxes, and the high cost of living, I wonder what they really have left.
so in NYC janitor means maintenance guy. Around here a certified maintenance guy doesn’t make that much but they make more than a ‘janitor’ would.
Janitorial staff is important and they need to know what they are doing but it isn’t exactly skilled labor.
Operating the systems in a building and being certified to do so is a different thing.
Also something like that is probably a “gotta know the right people to get in” kind of gig.
109k in NYC is probably similar to 60k in flyover country. With overtime that’s somewhat plausible.
So apparently, custodians make that kind of money, but plain ol’ janitors do not. I can see some logic in that.