Wrap: Supervisors, lawyers, maintenence workers, and technicians are all on the list of more than 1,000 MoDOT employees getting bonuses this year.

Many are getting $1,000 or more.

To get the money, two levels of supervisors have to say an employee is excellent.

There's no appeals process, so the word of the supervisors is it.

But MoDOT Director Pete Rahn says there's only one way to get a bonus.

While Rahn says his program is a success, none of the state's other departments have a bonus system like it.

From the State Capitol, I'm Theo Keith, Newsradio 1120 KMOX.

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Wrap: MoDOT is giving more than 1,000 of its employees performance-based bonuses this year.

Missouri's other state workers have seen their pay frozen.

MoDOT is funded through sources like the gas tax, meaning it controls its own money.

But St. Louis County Republican Representative Allen Icet says that's no reason why the legislature can't ask for the criteria to get a bonus.

Icet says he supports the idea of performance-based pay - with tough criteria - because it rewards hard work.

From the State Capitol, I'm Theo Keith, Newsradio 1120 KMOX.

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Wrap: At a time when nearly all state employees have had their pay frozen, the state Transportation Department is giving out extra money to more than 1,000 of its workers.

It adds up to more than a million-and-a-half dollars.

Some of the workers are bureaucrats.

A few make more than $100,000 a year.

But MoDOT Director Pete Rahn defended the pay, saying it gives people an incentive to work harder.

Rahn says the performance-based pay should be a model for other state agencies.

From the State Capitol, I'm Theo Keith, Newsradio 1120 KMOX.