CTA Data Shows Reliance on Overtime, Chronic FOIA Delays and Years of Mischaracterized Records – WTTW (Chicago)

The largest group of employees in each year worked an average of 30 to 40 hours per week. But that group has shrunk significantly from 2015, when 51.6 percent of operators fell into that category, to 34.8 percent of operators last year. At the same time, the cohort of employees working an average of 40 hours per week or more rose from 8.7 percent in 2015 to a peak of 21.2 percent in 2022.