The Empire Center has posted payroll records for 121,961 custodians, bus drivers, aides, secretaries and other non-professional public school employees on their transparency site, www.SeeThroughNY.net.
A full release is available here, and a chart detailing the 100 highest paid non-professional public school employees is here.
According to the release, New York Institute for Special Education employee Steven H. Prigohzy was the highest paid, non-professional public school employee for the fiscal year ending March 30, 2009. Prigohzy was paid $230,000.
SeeThroughNY now boasts over 385,000 public school employee payrolls posted to the site–creating a nearly complete set of public school employee payroll records.
Originally Published: NY Public Payroll Watch
The Empire Center has posted payroll records for 121,961 custodians, bus drivers, aides, secretaries and other non-professional public school employees on their transparency site, www.SeeThroughNY.net. A full release is available here…
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