DIA manager's pay 50% over predecessor
By Daniel J. Chacon, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)
Published February 22, 2008 at 12:30 a.m.
The new manager of Denver International Airport is poised to receive a $240,996 annual salary, making her Mayor John Hickenlooper's highest paid appointee.
The salary that Hickenlooper is proposing for Kim Day is about 50 percent more than that of Turner West, the current DIA manager.
Day's proposed salary is at the top of the range of a salary survey of other U.S. airports.
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Theoldguy writes:
lessee....A California transplant that recently left being a manager at LAX. The circumstances are rather questionable. Well, Kim looks like an average faded blonde from California. A quarter mil to polish a chair. WOW! But hey, what can I say...it's your tax dollars at work. Now what was Hickie thinking?