#City to city bus driver salary drivers
SMART is in talks with its drivers for a new contract, Oglesby said. Explain to me the big disparity in pay.”ĪTU members at DDOT are working under a contract that expires in 2025. “We’re both ATU unions doing the same work. “My entire time here as a member of this union as well as a worker for the city is (trying to convince DDOT) to pay me what that guy over there is getting,” Coller said. Collier, who has three decades of experience at DDOT, said the city should start with matching the starting salary of SMART operators. Detroit drivers can earn a maximum of $21 per hour.ĭrivers for SMART, a regional transit agency serving Southeast Michigan, start at $19 per hour. That’s far below the $22.21 average national hourly wage for bus drivers in urban transit systems, and under the median income for Detroit ($34,768) as reported by the census.
“That’s a problem for us.”ĭDOT bus drivers start at $15 per hour, which roughly equals an annual salary of $31,200. “It appears to me they are putting stuff on the table to remove things from our contract that we would not give up in past negotiations,” Collier said. Collier confirmed that the city is offering the possibility of raises, though he declined to provide specifics, and expressed concerns that there may be strings attached. Schetrone Collier, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 26, which represents DDOT drivers, said the negotiations are just starting. DDOT is upgrading its aging bus fleet, recruiting drivers.DDOT switches mobile ticketing app, cash payments remain an option.DDOT drivers who show up for work to get quarterly bonuses.More importantly, the operators that we have we need to come to work.”
“The reason we don’t have the service we want is because we don’t have the operators we want. “It’s my opinion that it’s not a financial issue, it’s more of finding the right number,” Oglesby said. Oglesby said starting conversations about boosting salaries for DDOT drivers, who are paid far less than the national average, is “the right thing to do.” City officials are negotiating with Detroit bus drivers for a wage increase to fix the chronic operator shortages causing service interruptions.ĭepartment of Transportation Director Mikel Oglesby told BridgeDetroit that DDOT is short about 100 drivers and there’s funding available for raises and other incentives to recruit and retain drivers.
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