'World’s best-paid cleaner' earns a €223,000 salary

24th of February 2017
'World’s best-paid cleaner' earns a €223,000 salary

A cleaner in San Francisco is reputed to earn a €223,000 salary by working every day of the year.

Liang Zhao Zhang, who works for regional rail network Bay Area Rapid Transport (BART), may be the best paid cleaner in the world, with his basic salary of €52,000 a year and another €13,500 in company benefits.

Public records unveiled by campaign group Transparent California shows Zhang has also been able to pocket €152,000 a year in overtime payments alone.

Salary data obtained by KTVU also revealed that he was one of 49 BART workers whose overtime pay exceeded their basic salaries.

Over the past three years, Zhang has earned a combined €639,708 in pay and benefits. Time records show he worked every single day in 2015 including weekends - and used his holidays to earn pay for 365 days that year.

It also revealed most days he also worked overtime - and at one point Zhang worked 17-hour days for 18 days straight.

When questioned over Zhang's records and pay, company bosses said their employee simply never refuses extra work.

 

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