Clearing the record
A story Wednesday about a dispute over city employees' signing bonuses wrongly gave $35,373 as AFSCME District Council 47 members' average salary. Their average was not immediately available from the city or the union. The average salary of $35,373 is that of District Council 33 members before their latest contract raise. The figure of $941 was the city's calculation of the average raise D.C. 33 members could have gotten had they settled at the same time as D.C. 47 and did not apply to D.C. 47 members.
A story Wednesday about a dispute over city employees' signing bonuses wrongly gave $35,373 as AFSCME District Council 47 members' average salary. Their average was not immediately available from the city or the union. The average salary of $35,373 is that of District Council 33 members before their latest contract raise. The figure of $941 was the city's calculation of the average raise D.C. 33 members could have gotten had they settled at the same time as D.C. 47 and did not apply to D.C. 47 members.