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
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The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates Stewart Airport, the Big Three New York metro jetports and Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, and the World Trade Center site, is among the most generous of the region’s large public se Read More
The Riverhead School District could have to pay an additional $20,000 to its former finance head while he’s brought back in this year to train his replacement, according to a school board meeting agenda and News-Review calculations. The board wa Read More
The MTA is paying out more money to fewer employees, according to a study released yesterday. Despite shedding 3,500, the transit agency's payroll increased by $71 million from 2009 to 2010 -- a 1.4 percent jump following the loss of 1.1 percent o Read More
Gov. Andrew Cuomo Wednesday vetoed a bill that would have let school districts borrow more than $1 billion to help cover escalating pension costs. Critics had called the bill a sneaky way for districts to circumvent the governor's ballyhooed property Read More
Calling borrowing money to finance pension costs as financially reckless, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has vetoed a bill that would have let school districts issue bonds to pay for the cost. "The people of the state of New York have made it clear that they w Read More
New York's Common Retirement Fund has grown to $146.5 billion, its highest point since markets crashed in 2008, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli said. The fund, which provides benefits for more than a million state and municipal employees and retire Read More