Eliot Spitzer is asking voters to forget what he did after dark and focus instead on the supposedly stellar way he handled his day job. Read More
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Local officials around the state are breathing a sigh of relief after Comptroller Tom DiNapoli announced Tuesday that their required contribution to fund public employee pensions will tick down. It's the first decrease since 2010, and it comes in the wake of a major spike after the 2008 stock market crash... Read More
A new report showing pay for New York's county and municipal employees lists one public worker from Long Island getting near $360,000 in Suffolk County followed by a police officer paid $306,000 in neighboring Nassau County. The report from the Empire Center for Public Policy... Read More
New sewer lines and septic systems. Flood control projects, preservation of open space and habitat restoration. Improved air quality and more community gardens. These are some of the items contained in a $5 billion bond act... Read More
One of teaching’s most hallowed traditions may be on the way out under a new contract that is on the table in a northern Westchester County district. Read More
Workers in five Westchester cities have the highest average municipal salaries among city employees in the state outside of New York City, a report released Thursday by the Empire Center for Public Policy found. The report, which covered April 2012 to March 2013, also found county workers in the Lower Hudson Valley are among the best paid at that level of government. Westchester County employees earned the highest average salary at $80,322, followed by Putnam workers at $66,537. Rockland employees ranked fifth in the state at $61,764. Two Westchester correction officers were among the 10 highest-paid employees overall in the state, each raking in about $275,000 — more than double their base pay. Read More
Local governments in New York had a nearly 9 percent increase in full and part-time employees in the past fiscal year, but the average salary dropped, a report Thursday found. The dichotomy suggested that local governments may be hiring workers, but they are being paid less, and government is relying more on part-time help, the report from the Empire Center for Public Policy found. Read More
County employees in Westchester earned an average of $80,322 a year in 2012-13, according to a report released by the Empire Center on Thursday. That was the highest paid county employee average in the state. Read More