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The fun of the Internet! The website Legistorm lists the salaries of Congressional staffers, and the Post did some legwork to find the payrolls of NY-area representatives and senators. The Post, though, points out a few big payrolls:
One of the fattest payrolls in Washington belongs to Rep. Charles Rangel (D-Harlem), who controls the top Democratic spot on the powerful Ways and Means Committee. Rangel pays four of his top committee aides more than $150,000, gives his chief-of-staff about $153,000, and pays three other aides more than $100,000 - including his longtime secretary...Rangel's chief of staff George Dalley pointed out that many of Rangel's staffers have worked for an average of 18 years. We appreciate the Post including Representative King's high-paid staff, but the article's focus is certainly on Democratic leglislators, though, for instance, Republican Representative Vito Fossella's Chief of Staff made almost $100,000 over nine months. And you know what? As long as they aren't instant messaging sexually explicit things to teenage pages, maybe that's okay....Rep. Peter King (R-L.I.) pays three staffers on the House Homeland Security Committee and his personal chief-of-staff more than $100,000. Top committee aide Robert O'Connor gets more than $150,000 - or 25 times the annualized salary King paid one of his interns, who earned $495 for a month's work.
Here's the page for New York State, and when you see the salaries, they may be just for a three- or six-month periods.
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You can learn the salary of most city employees through the city's Records Department. The Times ran an article on this in March ("When the City Is Your Boss, Your Salary Is an Open Book")...go to http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/html/govpub/labor1.shtml and click on "Civil List"--because the list is so long, it is in two large PDFs.
Despite the fact that I like Rangel's politics, that guy has always screamed corruption to me. Of course, you can't come out and say that in public since any criticism of a black politician is labeled racist.
As a congressional staffer, I can tell you that such criticism is unfair. If anything, they are underpaid. They can be making way more in the private sector but have instead chosen the public sector.