Countywide : OCTD Manager Pay Boosted to $93,984
The Orange County Transit District board on Monday unanimously approved an additional 5% pay raise for district General Manager James P. Reichert, bringing his annual increase to 10%. His new salary is $93,984 a year.
District spokeswoman Joanne Curran said Reichert’s four-year contract, which ends Nov. 1, 1993, calls for an automatic 5% increase this year and next year, plus a 6% increase in 1992 and 1993.
The board voted 5 to 0 to approve the pay package and give Reichert an additional 5% increase.
Last October, the board was split 3 to 2 on the question of whether to give Reichert a multi-year contract. Members Richard B. Edgar, William Farris and John Erskine approved the agreement, citing Reichert’s job performance. But another board member, County Supervisor Roger R. Stanton, called the contract a “guaranteed giveaway of raises in advance.”
Curran said the OCTD set a ridership record in the last year with 46 million passengers. The district has 1,500 employees, nearly 600 buses and vans and an operating budget of $184.3 million.
Reichert has been with OCTD since 1973. He became general manager in March, 1978.
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