TSA top local managers are paid top dollar (Overpaid?)

[RamboLiberal]

The top Transportation Security Administration managers at Pittsburgh International Airport earn far more than their counterparts in private industry, and critics say the government salaries are excessive.

The top 10 TSA managers based at the Findlay airport earn an average of nearly $20,000 more than Pittsburgh-area workers in similar positions at private companies, according to a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review analysis of TSA salaries with U.S. Department of Labor data. One employee, Dale Palmer, a training manager, is paid $48,000 more than the local average for training managers in private industry.

U.S. Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., called for an investigation of the TSA earlier this year because of the high salaries it pays to managers. Mica argues that the agency has too many managers and pays them far more than it should.

"The TSA's middle management has grown into a full-fledged bureaucracy, well beyond anything we intended or envisioned," said Gary Burns, a Mica spokesman.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/regional/s_405315.html

BTW, this is from Dicky Mellon Scaife's rag.

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1. more GOP "small government"

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