Overtime, retirement payouts and other compensation helped boost the pay of some MTA dispatchers, engineers and train car mechanics to nearly $200,000 last year, and in a few cases even more, according to an Albany-based nonprofit research center. Read More
Even as the MTA planned to lay off workers and slash services, the agency's payroll increased last year, data show. The average total pay for Metropolitan Transportation Authority employees last year increased by 2.4% to $69,000 - inflated in part 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 That's due to outdated work rules that allow unionized employees to rake in astounding amounts of overtime Read More
In an era of generous municipal salaries and union-friendly overtime rules, it may not come as a complete shock that there are thousands of Metropolitan Transportation Authority employees — 8,074, to be precise — who made $100,000 or more last ye Read More
Officials in Nassau and Suffolk counties say they're going to have to pay out about $90 million more in contributions to the state pension fund next year, despite reports of a fully funded state system that gained 26 percent on its investments in its Read More
Gov. David A. Paterson Thursday predicted "anarchy in the streets" if state government shuts down on Monday, but legislative leaders vowed to win passage of the emergency spending bills to prevent that. In the closely divided State Senate, one of Read More
A statewide fiscal crisis and a historic curtailing of education aid is forcing school districts in Niagara County to do more with less. This conundrum is placing superintendents on the hot seat as they attempt to lower capital costs, maintain high-l Read More