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The Empire Center for New York State Policy has just released its 2010 payroll data for the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). Results? The average MTA worker made more than $72,000 in salary and/or wages, overtime, and othe Read More

It pays to work for the Port Authority -- big time. The average salary at the bistate agency hit $90,000 last year -- more than $30,000 above the average salary for private-sector workers in the city -- according to a new analysis by the conservative Read More

Nicole Gelinas has a in the New York Post today skewering state Senate Republicans for passing a bill that would repeal the in the Metropolitan Transportation Region without offering a solid plan for closing the holes in the MTA operating a Read More

School superintendents don't get overtime, but that didn't prevent former Niagara Falls School Superintendent Carmen A. Granto Jr. from collecting a pension larger than his salary. He did so by cashing in 45 unused vacation days and 747 unused sick days... Read More

New York City and other government entities should begin to “proactively” disclose payrolls, expenditure information and other public records on the Internet, according to testimony before the City Council today by Tim Hoefer, operations director of the Manhattan Institute’s Empire Center for Public Policy. Read More

An advocacy group for subway riders is blaming budget reductions for dirtier conditions on New York subway cars. "It’s as clear as the grime on a subway car floor: MTA Transit cuts in cleaners has meant dirtier cars.. Read More

Two weeks ago, The Empire Center offered a glimpse into MTA employees' payroll data, like the one train conductor who was paid $239,148. Now the non-profit think tank has added a pension search system to its government transparency website SeeThrough Read More

E.J. and I had a podcast chat this morning to run through some of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)'s 2009 payroll data, released last week by the Empire Center's seethroughny.net. The data show that last year, the MTA's 74,708 workers... Read More

More than 10 percent of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's workforce made at least $100,000 each in 2009, according to payroll data made public Wednesday. The MTA, in a statement, attributed the six-figure salaries of more than 8,000 work Read More

Salaries at the agency that operates the city's subways and buses have increased for the second year in a row, even as service cuts and layoffs loom. Data released Wednesday by the Empire Center for Public Policy, a nonpartisan research organizati Read More

Despite service cuts, Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) workers' salaries have increased for a second consecutive year, according to a new report released this week. The MTA has countered that the raises were previously agreed upon. The Read More

Nearly 40 percent of MTA employees making more than $150,000 a year are rank-and-file workers, a new analysis of the agency's payroll shows. That's due to outdated work rules that allow unionized employees to rake in astounding amounts of overtime Read More