Overtime payments jumped nearly 16 percent last year at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), fueling agency-wide average pay hikes of 6 percent, according to newly posted payroll records at SeeThroughNY.net. The increase in MTA payroll costs for 2018 alone was $418 million—$82 million more than the authority expects to raise annually from its latest round of fare, ticket and toll hikes. [Read_more]
The Empire Center for Public Policy this week filed Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) appeals with the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) after six of its seven subsidiaries failed to release public payroll records. [Read_more]
Complete copies of 220 local government and school district labor union contracts were added today to SeeThroughNY, the Empire Center’s transparency website. [Read_more]
Revenue for New York’s hospitals increased by $14 billion from 2012 to 2016, according to an Empire Center research and data bulletin released today. [Read_more]
State lawmakers spent $7.8 million on postage for campaign-style mailings to constituents in the six-month run-up to last year’s elections, according to data added today to SeeThroughNY, the Empire Center’s transparency website. [Read_more]
Maximum pension benefits averaged $68,902 for the 2,598 members of the New York State Teachers Retirement System (NYSTRS) who retired last year with at least 30 years of credited service time, according to data posted today on SeeThroughNY, the Empire Center’s transparency website. [Read_more]
The complete 2018 New York State government payroll is now posted on SeeThroughNY.net, the Empire Center’s government transparency website. [Read_more]
The number of six-figure pensions paid to retired New York City education professions has more than quadrupled since 2008, according to data posted today on SeeThroughNY, the Empire Center’s transparency website. [Read_more]
Almost one in three New Yorkers would face higher costs under a proposed single-payer health plan, and half of the worse-off group would be low- or middle-income, according to a new report from the Empire Center. [Read_more]
At least four New York local government retirees appear to have received permission from state or New York City officials to each take home a combined $300,000 in pay and pensions as of January 1, 2018, according to data posted today on SeeThroughNY, the Empire Center’s government transparency website. [Read_more]
A new analysis of New York’s proposed single-payer health care plan finds that as many as 77 percent of hospitals statewide could lose revenue under its funding structure. [Read_more]
