Tag: Public Authorities

The Long Island Rail Road workers threatening to go on strike this year make livings that most New Yorkers can only envy. The average LIRR employee made $83,794 in 2013 — 62% higher than the city’s median household income — and more than a quarter of them boasted incomes north of $100,000, according to the Empire Center for Public Policy. Read More

One out of every seven employees of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority made more than $100,000 in 2013, according to authority payroll records posted today at SeeThroughNY.net. Read More

Overtime pay boosted eight Port Authority police officers' salaries over $300,000 last year, and overall, 11 officers each earned more than the chairmen in New York and New Jersey who ran the two-state agency. Read More

Last week, at a Manhattan news conference that was also “live-streamed” on Governor Andrew Cuomo’s website, the chief executive officer of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and the president of Local 100 of the Transit Workers Union signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) reflecting a tentative contract deal that will shape the MTA’s labor compensation costs for years to come. Read More

The Port Authority has hired at least 11 retired cops — most from the NYPD or New Jersey — who “double dip” by collecting hefty police pensions while earning big bucks in their new posts, The Post has learned. Read More

Boosted in many cases by enormous overtime totals, the average pay of employees at the bi-state Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is among the highest found in any of the region’s large public-sector employers, as reflected in 2013 payroll records posted today at SeethroughNY.net, the Empire Center's transparency website... Read More

New York is at the top of the debt list in the latest U.S. Census data on state and local government finances. As of 2009, New York’s state and local long-term indebtedness came to $15,202 per-capita, more than any state and 74 percent above the national average. Read More

State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli is out today with a new report on New York State’s public authorities. He counts 1,169 of them, including 324 on the state level, 837 local authorities and eight “Interstate/International.” Read More