VisitPittsburgh executives' six-figure salaries being questioned in review
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Nearly $400K in base pay is a sweet ride, especially when the quality of the city's tourism infrastructure -- namely quality hotels -- haven't kept pace with other types of development in the city.
Pittsburgh's tourism agency is rethinking how much it pays its top executives.
Leaders at VisitPittsburgh won't say how much that review will cost, but paying for an outside consultant to measure its salaries against those of other U.S. tourism agencies is cutting into every departmental budget.
"If any individual salaries are out of line, we will make adjustments," Bill Cagney, chairman of VisitPittsburgh's board of directors, said Wednesday.
The agency is responding to criticism from some politicians, most notably Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald, that it overpays executives. VisitPittsburgh must justify six-figure salaries that topped out in 2011 at $386,025 in total annual compensation to Executive Chairman Joe McGrath, who is set to retire in Ju
