Checking the 2010 salaries of state employees is only a few mouse clicks away.

The 2010 salaries of over 200,000 state employees are available at seethroughny.net, a website promoting government transparency. According to a press release from the Empire Center for Public Policy, the salary lists don’t include pension costs, health insurance for employed and retired state workers, and any other benefits.

The highest-paid employee was Kevin Broadus, the former coach of SUNY Binghamton’s men’s basketball team, who raked in a total of $1,026,793. Broadus received the lion’s share of that figure after he received a $1.2 million settlement to resign from the university, according to an Oct. 28 article in the New York Times. The basketball program had come under fire for academic and recruiting issues and players’ off-court problems during Broadus’ term as coach, according to the article.

Next up on the list are Stephen Onesti, M.D., and Alain E. Kaloyeros, who received $974,605 and $763,289, respectively. Onesti is a professor and chair of the Neurosurgery Department at SUNY Downstate Medical Center Hospital. Kaloyeros is the vice president and chief administrative officer of the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of SUNY Albany.

The SeeThroughNY website allows users to browse salaries and pensions for municipalities across the state. The state government is divided into three branches: Executive, legislative, and judicial. The executive salary list includes SUNY and CUNY employees.

Over 115 SUNY employees made more than the $285,063 pulled in by Deputy Comptroller Raudline Etienne, who is tops on the executive branch’s salary list outside of SUNY and CUNY employees. Nine CUNY employees also earned more than Etienne.

Meanwhile, former Gov. David Paterson pulled in $178,509. The release from the Empire Center for Public Policy said 996 state employees made more than the governor.

As far as the top salaries from the legislative branch, Secretary of the Senate Angelo J. Aponte made $189,022 and Shelley B. Mayer, chief counsel to the Senate majority, made $180,000.

The top two earners in the judicial branch were Martin Meaney and Vincent J. Homenick. Meaney, a case management coordinator, earned $215,318, while Homenick, a court clerk specialist, received $209,696.

A pdf file of the top 50 earners in the state executive (without SUNY and CUNY), legislative, and judicial branches, and in the SUNY and CUNY systems can be found on the Empire Center for Public Policy website, www.empirecenter.org/.

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