What state, county and municipal workers make

Excluding New York City, more than half a million state, county and municipal workers in New York made $29 billion in the fiscal year that ended on March 31, 2017, according to data provided by the Office of State Comptroller. That represents a 2.8 percent increase from the year before. Data for the 2015-16 year were also included in the table below.

You can also see this list of more than 500,000 government employees rounded up into a a database of more than 3,000 governmental units in New York State.

The data below, which cover active employees enrolled in the New York State and Local Retirement System, were obtained via a Freedom of Information Law request. You can read more here. This database was posted on Nov. 28, 2017.

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Name Employer name Amount Date Fiscal year Pension group
Name HAUPTMAN, RUSSELL R Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $76,308.40 Date 01/01/1997 Fiscal year 2016-17 Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System
Name CADEK, MICHAEL J Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $75,424.69 Date 02/21/1997 Fiscal year 2016-17 Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System
Name PICKERING, STEVEN C Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $75,312.25 Date 04/15/2000 Fiscal year 2016-17 Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System
Name COOK, STEPHEN D Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $63,407.08 Date 06/12/2000 Fiscal year 2016-17 Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System
Name MURRAY, SEAN J Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $62,551.56 Date 12/06/2006 Fiscal year 2016-17 Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System
Name TOPPING, DAVID J Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $61,253.50 Date 06/03/1993 Fiscal year 2016-17 Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System
Name NOONAN, DAVID J Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $57,289.70 Date 03/03/2004 Fiscal year 2016-17 Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System
Name LESSO, WILLIAM J Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $56,862.34 Date 10/22/2012 Fiscal year 2016-17 Pension group Employee Retirement System
Name MUSTICO, MICHAEL R Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $54,824.31 Date 10/31/2005 Fiscal year 2016-17 Pension group Employee Retirement System
Name MORRELL, BRADLEY S Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $53,000.80 Date 05/26/2012 Fiscal year 2016-17 Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System
Name MOWCHAN, JOSEPH M Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $31,311.68 Date 06/20/1988 Fiscal year 2016-17 Pension group Employee Retirement System
Name LEWIS, DEBORAH J Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $28,905.80 Date 06/19/2007 Fiscal year 2016-17 Pension group Employee Retirement System
Name ROBERTI, NICHOLAS J Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $27,374.22 Date 08/15/2016 Fiscal year 2016-17 Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System
Name COOK, KARL M Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $18,902.30 Date 07/10/2009 Fiscal year 2016-17 Pension group Employee Retirement System
Name HOURIHAN, JEREMY J Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $14,449.89 Date 05/27/2014 Fiscal year 2016-17 Pension group Employee Retirement System
Name BESLEY, JASON S Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $9,162.22 Date 01/24/2014 Fiscal year 2016-17 Pension group Employee Retirement System
Name MARTONE, AMANDA L Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $8,400.40 Date 06/19/2015 Fiscal year 2016-17 Pension group Employee Retirement System
Name MOWER, MICHAEL Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $6,249.20 Date 01/17/2006 Fiscal year 2016-17 Pension group Employee Retirement System
Name SWEET, JEFFREY L, JR Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $5,665.30 Date 10/15/2004 Fiscal year 2016-17 Pension group Employee Retirement System
Name BAKER, JOSHUA A Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $5,314.42 Date 01/09/2015 Fiscal year 2016-17 Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System
Name FRENCH, ANDREW Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $4,423.00 Date 07/19/2016 Fiscal year 2016-17 Pension group Employee Retirement System
Name SKEBEY, RICHARD R Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $4,064.40 Date 02/22/2006 Fiscal year 2016-17 Pension group Employee Retirement System
Name BELLINGER, DYLAN S Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $3,430.56 Date 12/24/2016 Fiscal year 2016-17 Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System
Name GALE, MATTHEW K Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $2,203.60 Date 07/03/2012 Fiscal year 2016-17 Pension group Employee Retirement System
Name HAUPTMAN, RUSSELL R Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $81,099.41 Date 01/01/1997 Fiscal year 2015-16 Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System
Name CHURCHES, ARTHUR R, JR Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $77,226.24 Date 01/05/1994 Fiscal year 2015-16 Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System
Name COSGROVE, JAMES R Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $73,793.02 Date 07/22/1996 Fiscal year 2015-16 Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System
Name MURRAY, SEAN J Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $68,662.45 Date 12/06/2006 Fiscal year 2015-16 Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System
Name PICKERING, STEVEN C Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $64,426.41 Date 04/15/2000 Fiscal year 2015-16 Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System
Name CADEK, MICHAEL J Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $61,843.79 Date 04/22/2002 Fiscal year 2015-16 Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System
Name TOPPING, DAVID J Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $61,595.38 Date 06/03/1993 Fiscal year 2015-16 Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System
Name COOK, STEPHEN D Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $60,122.05 Date 06/12/2000 Fiscal year 2015-16 Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System
Name NOONAN, DAVID J Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $56,908.15 Date 03/03/2004 Fiscal year 2015-16 Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System
Name MOWCHAN, JOSEPH M Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $54,921.72 Date 06/20/1988 Fiscal year 2015-16 Pension group Employee Retirement System
Name LESSO, WILLIAM J Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $52,358.90 Date 10/22/2012 Fiscal year 2015-16 Pension group Employee Retirement System
Name MORRELL, BRADLEY S Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $50,198.29 Date 05/26/2012 Fiscal year 2015-16 Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System
Name MUSTICO, MICHAEL R Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $47,658.34 Date 10/31/2005 Fiscal year 2015-16 Pension group Employee Retirement System
Name COOK, KARL M Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $37,817.46 Date 07/10/2009 Fiscal year 2015-16 Pension group Employee Retirement System
Name LEWIS, DEBORAH J Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $26,117.62 Date 06/19/2007 Fiscal year 2015-16 Pension group Employee Retirement System
Name MARTONE, AMANDA L Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $6,460.00 Date 06/19/2015 Fiscal year 2015-16 Pension group Employee Retirement System
Name MOWER, MICHAEL Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $5,970.98 Date 01/17/2006 Fiscal year 2015-16 Pension group Employee Retirement System
Name BAKER, JOSHUA A Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $4,795.20 Date 01/09/2015 Fiscal year 2015-16 Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System
Name SKEBEY, RICHARD R Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $4,306.90 Date 02/22/2006 Fiscal year 2015-16 Pension group Employee Retirement System
Name SWEET, JEFFREY L, JR Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $4,094.40 Date 10/15/2004 Fiscal year 2015-16 Pension group Employee Retirement System
Name BESLEY, JASON S Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $3,904.00 Date 01/24/2014 Fiscal year 2015-16 Pension group Employee Retirement System
Name GALE, MATTHEW K Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $3,066.80 Date 07/03/2012 Fiscal year 2015-16 Pension group Employee Retirement System
Name YOUNG, ROBERT A Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $1,224.00 Date 08/29/2008 Fiscal year 2015-16 Pension group Employee Retirement System
Name SHIELDS, BLAKE J Employer name Village of Elmira Heights Amount $764.38 Date 05/15/2012 Fiscal year 2015-16 Pension group Employee Retirement System

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