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Thursday, April 25, 2019

Overtime Surge Fuels $400M Payroll Hike at MTA

https://www.empirecenter.org/publications/overtime-surge-fuels-400m-payroll-hike-at-mta/

https://nypost.com/2019/04/23/mtas-top-earner-made-344k-in-overtime-last-year/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_campaign=SocialFlow


Overtime payments jumped nearly 16 percent last year at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), fueling agency-wide average pay hikes of 6 percent, according to newly posted payroll records at SeeThroughNY.net. The increase in MTA payroll costs for 2018 alone was $418 million—$82 million more than the authority expects to raise annually from its latest round of fare, ticket and toll hikes.
The latest searchable database at SeeThroughNY—including names, titles and salaries for 80,057 individuals who worked for the MTA during calendar year 2018— reflects the following payroll trends at the MTA’s operating subsidiaries:
New York City Transit – Overtime was up 16 percent, or $119 million last year. The average total pay for all transit workers employed in 2018 rose to $84,265 from $79,916 in 2017. The latest increase in NYC Transit overtime was in line with a five-year trend that has seen the transit agency’s overtime increase by a total of 87 percent, or $404 million.


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