Post by dave on Aug 22, 2013 9:41:22 GMT -5
What They Make, 2012-13
County & Municipal Payrolls in NYS
August 22, 2013
Local government is a labor-intensive business, and employee compensation is the single biggest element of most municipal budgets. The 2012-13 edition of
What They Make, the Empire Center's annual report on public payrolls, allows New York taxpayers to compare this key element of local government costs around the state.
This report provides a summary analysis of the data. Highlights include:
* New York State's highest-paid local government employee in 2012-13 was George Gatta, Jr., executive vice president of Suffolk County Community College, who collected $359,632 before retiring in February. Gatta's final pay package was nearly $130,000 higher than his reported salary in 2011-12.
* Sixteen of the state's 20 highest-paid local employees in 2012-13 were police officers, including a dozen members of the Nassau County department. Two Westchester County corrections officer also cracked the top 20 list.
* In four out of seven upstate regions, the highest-paid employees were psychiatrists working for county mental health programs; the others were a community college president, a hospital executive and two district attorneys.
* The highest salary reported for any group of local employees was the $175,818 average collected by 23 Village of Amityville police officers.
Read and download the full report here.
www.empirecenter.org/AboutUs/news_releases/2013/08/whattheymake2012-13.cfm
County & Municipal Payrolls in NYS
August 22, 2013
Local government is a labor-intensive business, and employee compensation is the single biggest element of most municipal budgets. The 2012-13 edition of
What They Make, the Empire Center's annual report on public payrolls, allows New York taxpayers to compare this key element of local government costs around the state.
This report provides a summary analysis of the data. Highlights include:
* New York State's highest-paid local government employee in 2012-13 was George Gatta, Jr., executive vice president of Suffolk County Community College, who collected $359,632 before retiring in February. Gatta's final pay package was nearly $130,000 higher than his reported salary in 2011-12.
* Sixteen of the state's 20 highest-paid local employees in 2012-13 were police officers, including a dozen members of the Nassau County department. Two Westchester County corrections officer also cracked the top 20 list.
* In four out of seven upstate regions, the highest-paid employees were psychiatrists working for county mental health programs; the others were a community college president, a hospital executive and two district attorneys.
* The highest salary reported for any group of local employees was the $175,818 average collected by 23 Village of Amityville police officers.
Read and download the full report here.
www.empirecenter.org/AboutUs/news_releases/2013/08/whattheymake2012-13.cfm