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2025 CATA payroll

September 15, 2026

The following is my presentation of the CATA payroll for 2025. It is based on a payroll file provided by the Capital Area Transit Authority (cata.org) in August 2026. You can download that file as received here. I have also published CATA wage information for 2016, 2018, 2020 and 2022.

In some of the lists below, I have added fields for "annualized" and "gross-annualized". The rate/salary field provided by CATA is the hourly rate for hourly employees and the weekly rate for salaried employees, so "annualized" for hourly employees is the hourly rate multiplied by 2080 (40 hours a week multiplied by 52). For salaried employees, it is the weekly rate multiplied by 52. All this is to show that actual annual earnings often exceed the annualized pay rate/salary, usually due to overtime. For one employee in the Maintenance department, that excess was over $80,000.

All employees, sorted by name

Operations Department

Maintenance Department

Other Departments

Highest salaries

Hired or rehired in 2025

Terminations

Also:

Operations, sorted by amount by which gross pay exceeds annualized

Maintenance, sorted by the amount by which gross pay exceeds annualized

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