At least 1,800 government workers in New York each got paid more than $179,000 last year, and business owners should know how their local officials compare to that group. Read More
Tag: Taxes and Spending
We’re all for police officers earning good pay. They do important, necessary and frequently dangerous work. But, good grief, when the top public-paid employee in all of Western New York is a police officer, something is out of whack. Read More
A report published today by a state watchdog think tank shows how municipally owned hospitals skew the costs of employment in the state’s towns and counties. Read More
Move over, Jimmy Fallon. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced last week that New York State will steer $16 million in subsidies to CBS to keep the "Late Show" in Manhattan under its next host, Stephen Colbert. Read More
The region's highest paid local government employees work for the town of Greece, according to the Empire Center for Public Policy. Read More
Police and firefighters top the list of Western New York’s highest-paid municipal employees, starting with a cop from Lackawanna. Read More
Cheektowaga and Hamburg (village) police are the highest-paid in Western New York, with average pay near $100,000. Read More
The highest-paid local government employee in the Southern Tier was paid $220,920 by Steuben County. Read More