DPI'S HIGHLY COMPENSATED BUREAUCRATS

DPI’s highest compensated employees get richer

http://watchdog.org/143821/dpi-bonus-awards/?roi=echo3-20432738579-19722643-606038dfbb1d25822f3da53e0ea66a9e

Wisconsin Reporter – Ryan Ekvall – 5/9/2014

Since June 2012, the department has handed out bonuses to 117 employees. The department employs 487 people, according to the staff directory. Four employees received two bonuses in the past two years.

In total, the department handed out $398,140 in permanent pay increases and $63,700 in one-time cash payments, records showed.

While most state employees received raises of 1 percent pay, it was best to be in Evers’ inner circle. Seven of 11 in Evers’ cabinet, who already make more in annual salary than 95 percent of Wisconsin workers, received an additional $30,230 in bonus compensation in the past two years.

“We’re sucking up money from poor, rural farming communities and giving it to handpicked administrators on criteria that isn’t even articulated to the public,” said Rae Ann McNeilly, executive director of Taxpayers United of America, a government watchdog organization which works in Illinois and Wisconsin. “The money goes into this big money pot and the bureaucracy grows.”

“Taxpayers need to be aware of where their money is going,” McNeilly said. “The bureaucrats don’t want you to see it. This is the problem with removing local control in education. We are siphoning money away from taxpayers up to a bureaucracy and removing it from the students DPI purports to be collecting it on behalf of.”

Two-page PDF - DPI Compensation Awards since June 2012

http://watchdog.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2014/05/DPIbonuses.pdf

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