OAKLAND (AP) — A top official for the agency that manages the San Francisco Bay Area’s BART system earned more than $330,000 last year — even though she didn’t work a single day for the public transit agency, a newspaper reported Sunday.Bay Area Rapid Transit general manager Dorothy Dugger resigned under pressure in May 2011, but stayed on the payroll for another 19 months and was BART’s highest-paid employee in 2012, the Bay Area News Group) reported.Dugger, 57, cashed in nearly 80 weeks of unused vacation time, drawing paychecks and full benefits. During that period, she earned nearly two extra months of vacation, received management bonuses and medical insurance, and boosted her pension benefits by more than $1,000 a month for life. When she left BART’s payroll in December, she began to draw an annual pension of $181,000, according to the newspaper.Dugger said she was entitled to the money because she earned more than 3,100 hours of unused vacation time during two decades with the light-rail agency.“It was time I earned my whole career at BART,” she said.
BART official paid $330K for not working