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The salaries of all city employees are available for the public to peruse at See Through NY, a project from the Manhattan Institute's Empire Center for New York State Policy. AMNY's Urbanite reports, "The mayor’s office is boasting some of the highest salaries of any city agency, with nearly one in five of its staffers pulling in at least $100,000 a year." The average salary in the Mayor's office is $71,626; the response from the Mayor's office: "The mayor’s office, unlike other city agencies, is mostly managers who are responsible for overseeing all facets of city government"—and, therefore, deserves those salaries. Schools Chancellor Joel Klein makes the most, with a take of $250,000 annually, and Urbanite notes that the salaries do not include overtime.
City Public Servants' Salaries Made Public
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Keep in mind that the database does not include overtime, which many, many public employees earn a ton of. It also can't possibly be totally up to date unless they constantly get new records sent to them every time a person is hired, fired or gets a raise. But it's still better than anything anyone else has put on the web for such purposes.
and dont forget other benefits, like lifetime pensions & healthcare, parking placards, expense accounts, etc
nice website, i must say...i think we'll find that the salary levels seem ok, but the real question is if ew really need the quantity of people.
so 3 employees at 45K may sound reasonable, until you realize that they do the work of one p/t intern and an excel spreadsheet
Also keep in mind that Bloomberg does not take his full salary home. He only takes what the law permits, 2 cents a year, the rest of the money stays with the city.
fugothamist has the right idea. it's nice bloomberg gives his money back and all but the problem is really not with him or any number of other high level people making salaries like 150 or 200k a year. the problem is with hundreds or thousands of people making 50k a year and full benefits doing the work that would be done by like 25%-50% of the work force if it was a private company.
seriously? people are now defending over-paid executives & blaming the small guy? really?
really? people are now defending thousands folks who are underworked and overcompensated for doing little or nothing? seriously?
math lesson:
100 * 50 > 15 * 10
your math lesson fails on so many levels!
maybe you have never been inside some of these civil service organizations, but me and anyone else with firsthand knowledge will tell you- there are thousands of people in this city doing literally nothing, at times even obstructing progress through their worthlessness and inability to solve or improve any problem, that happily collect their government paycheck. at least the people making 150k for heading up a department did some work at some point to get where they now are. and generally they face more stress, bs, and criticism then someone who twiddles a pencil in the parks department for a living or goes fishing 2 days a week instead of actually doing 40 hours of work for public housing maintenance.
Awesome, now I know for sure that my elementary school teacher friends make more than me!
Restrain government. Establish school choice---or at the very least the new DC model which lets teachers give up lifetime pensions for higher salaries (more free-market salaries) now.
When the economy continues to tank, one of the few things I will be able to smile about is the fraud being perpetuated by our government in the form of their payroll tax Ponzi schemes, and the size and scope of government.
Goodbye, overpaid city servants!
NYC Gov't, MTA, etc: Far too many people doing jobs that are perhaps completely unnecessary. The comments above are correct. This isn't about the salaries >$100K, but about all of those $45-75K do-nothings. How much Sudoku, how many hands of Solitaire, can be played in one day?
You don't even know. I was in that environment before (no longer) and I've seen people do nothing for weeks at a time. I've seen people falsify timesheets, take four hour lunches, play golf when they should be working, get paid overtime they didn't work, misuse city cars to go shopping or go to lunch, drive drunk and have their supervisors cover it up...you name it.
The higher paid people usually really do earn their salaries, but not always. There are also higher paid people (one of whom I just looked up and found she is making almost $100K) who are totally incapable of doing anything and only have their jobs because of a family member, and so they never get fired are are never given any real work to do.
In private sector, if you're salaried employee you're disqualified from OT. I may get "comp-time" but it's more hassle than a reimbursement of time, I am eligible for (unpredictable) bonuses houly-employees don't get, but my work after-hours is not paid for.
Granting OT rights to public employees is a financial black-hole. It only slows them down further bet. 9-5. Then they use it to pad their salaries just in time of retirement after barely 20 or 25 years of work. Friends "donate" their time for a future retiree, so out of a sudden he/she makes 50K atop of 80K base salary. They do it for 3 years, while their retirement is calculated as 70% of avg. for last 3 years. Madoff style scam, paid by our taxes. NJ Tpk toll collects retire with 90K per year. Same must happen in NY.