The board members can look forward to lavish salary increases - while for the employees it is only enough for a mini-plus.
Berlin - Bahn boss Richard Lutz and his two board colleagues Ronald Pofalla (network) and Berthold Huber (passenger transport) should get ten percent more salary from 2023.
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In the course of his contract extension, Lutz would then be entitled to a fixed salary of 990,000 euros instead of the previous fixed remuneration of 900,000 euros.
At Huber and Pofalla, the fixed remuneration should each increase from 650,000 euros to 715,000 euros.
The salary package should be decided by the supervisory board next week.
On the other hand, there is a dispute in the supervisory body about the variable remuneration of executives.
This year, the seven corporate board members are voluntarily foregoing the previously generous surcharges, but not the almost 70 divisional board members.
The employee representatives on the Supervisory Board want to stop the payment of this additional remuneration.
Bahn: Displeasure with the salary expectations of the divisional boards
The salaries of the top staff cause displeasure among employees.
Because the railway management and the largest trade union at the railway, the EVG, had decided only meager wage increases of 1.5 percent from 2022 for employees due to the high losses caused by Corona.
At the beginning of March, the German Train Driver Union (GDL) demanded 4.8 percent more wages and salaries as well as a corona bonus of 1500 euros.
In addition, there are demands for allowances, working hours, vacation and qualifications.
The railway had already rejected this as "unrealistic".
Bahn: Tense economic situation
The discussion about the salaries of employees and bosses is overshadowed by the strained economic situation of the group.
The number of passengers is currently around 80 percent below the usual occupancy rate at this time of the year.
Even in the traditionally high-volume Christmas traffic, the group continued to lag behind the usual number of passengers.
Under pressure from politics, the railway had almost completely maintained its offer regardless of the corona pandemic.
In addition, the company is groaning under a debt burden of 35 billion euros.