Tag: SeeThroughNY

The agency’s payroll grew by a whopping $418 million in 2018, according to a report published Tuesday by the watchdog group Empire Center for Public Policy. Their findings are compiled into a searchable database, which shows exactly how much each of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s 80,000 employees raked in last year. Read More

After the Empire Center’s SeeThroughNY noted this week that the LIRR shelled out $224.6 million for overtime in 2018 — up nearly $50  million from the previous year and more than $115 million since 2013 — it sounded alarms at the highest levels of the MTA’s management. Read More

According to a report from the Empire Center, MTA costs increased by 16 percent last year, bringing payroll totals to some $418 million.  That is $82 million more than the transit system expects to earn via the current year's round of fare, ticket and toll hikes, the report says.  Read More