Eight MTA workers made more than $200,000 in overtime alone last year, part of a general surge in agency overtime in 2016, according to a new report.
The Empire Center, an independent, not-for-profit think tank based in Albany, released its latest table of public payrolls for MTA employees on SeeThroughNY.net Monday.
The top earner in the MTA was Ralph K. Golden, a track foreman for the Long Island Rail Road who made a total of $360,978. His base pay is $104,822.
Golden, along with fellow LIRR track foremen Joseph M. Ruzzo and Joseph J. Biondo, outearned then-MTA chairman and CEO Thomas F. Prendergast, who received a salary of $346,707.
The MTA spent $971 million on overtime in 2016, up 4 percent from the year before, according to the Empire Center. Of the more than 77,000 MTA employees in 2016, 177 received overtime pay of $100,000 or more. That included 112 employees of LIRR, where average overtime pay rose 10 percent.
See more of the payroll data here.
A message left with the MTA was not immediately returned.
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