Wayland Town Crier 6/4/15: Wayland food service workers earn more than peer towns. With wages averaging $31 per hour, employees of the Wayland School Department’s Food Service Program are making about 50 percent more than colleagues in peer communities, who take home $19 to $21. At the same time, the program was found several years ago to be nearly $300,000 in arrears in paying its obligations to OPEB (Other Post-Employee Benefits), which will underwrite much of their health care after retirement. However, John Ledwick of Edvocate, a consultant retained by the School Committee to assess the performance of the program, said it’s a myth to think that Food Service is losing hundreds of thousands of dollars a year and is the “single biggest drag on the Wayland economy right now. The perception of where the finances are and the reality are miles apart.”
Wayland food service workers earn more than peer towns
