Salaries of top-paid TxDOT execs up 42.5 percent

Average salary of the department's 11,500 workers up 3.7 percent from last year

Austin — The Houston Chronicle is reporting; top executive salaries at Texas Department of Transportation are up more than 40 percent since last year, and paychecks of other high-level managers at the revamped agency have also risen sharply amid deep cutbacks elsewhere in state government.

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