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.
| Name | Employer name | Amount | Date | Fiscal year | Pension group |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name LEWIS, PATRICK T | Employer name City of Buffalo | Amount $73,390.39 | Date 02/16/2010 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System |
| Name BARLANTI, MICHAEL | Employer name Oceanside Sanitary District #7 | Amount $73,390.14 | Date 10/24/1988 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name MOHR, ROBERT J | Employer name Town of Penfield | Amount $73,389.51 | Date 02/05/2001 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name TAMUCCI, MICHAEL J | Employer name State Insurance Fund-Admin | Amount $73,389.05 | Date 06/23/2011 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name FELICE, JOSEPH R, JR | Employer name Dept Transportation Region 1 | Amount $73,388.95 | Date 10/26/2006 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name SEPULVEDA, YAMILETTE | Employer name Roswell Park Cancer Institute | Amount $73,388.51 | Date 05/16/2013 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name DE SIMONE, MICHAEL A | Employer name Nassau County | Amount $73,388.00 | Date 10/29/2010 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name CARLE, HERBERT N, JR | Employer name Office For Technology | Amount $73,387.88 | Date 06/30/1986 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name CONRAD, NANCY R | Employer name NYS Dormitory Authority | Amount $73,387.61 | Date 04/13/1992 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name DI ORIO, ROBERT C | Employer name NYS Dormitory Authority | Amount $73,387.61 | Date 11/30/1987 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name GILBERT, STEPHANIE S | Employer name NYS Dormitory Authority | Amount $73,387.61 | Date 04/14/1988 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name LENDIN, JULIA MARIE | Employer name NYS Dormitory Authority | Amount $73,387.61 | Date 08/03/1984 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name KESTER, WILLIAM B | Employer name Boces Erie Chautauqua Cattarau | Amount $73,386.84 | Date 09/10/2001 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name GOLDFISCHER, DEBORAH J | Employer name Finger Lakes DDSO | Amount $73,386.60 | Date 12/13/1979 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name COMSTOCK, DOUGLAS J | Employer name Attica Corr Facility | Amount $73,386.54 | Date 11/06/2000 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name YOUNG, PATRICIA | Employer name Office For Technology | Amount $73,386.53 | Date 09/15/1987 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name WOOLSTON, DANIEL L | Employer name SUNY College Technology Alfred | Amount $73,386.39 | Date 01/05/1989 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name STAATS, JEFFREY S | Employer name Department of State | Amount $73,386.21 | Date 04/25/1984 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name REYER, PAMELA M | Employer name Minisink Valley CSD | Amount $73,386.06 | Date 09/20/1994 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name DAVIS, TONYA | Employer name Mid-Hudson Psych Center | Amount $73,385.33 | Date 04/15/2004 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name SHEEHAN, KENNETH N | Employer name City of Syracuse | Amount $73,385.17 | Date 08/21/2014 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System |
| Name SMALLS, PAT J | Employer name Metro New York DDSO | Amount $73,384.62 | Date 09/29/1983 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name WALSH, JOHN P | Employer name Bellmore Fire District | Amount $73,384.30 | Date 01/05/2004 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name MANCARI, EDWARD W | Employer name Metropolitan Trans Authority | Amount $73,384.22 | Date 12/03/2015 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name STEIGER, JILL | Employer name Levittown UFSD-Abbey Lane | Amount $73,382.78 | Date 01/24/1990 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name WHEATLEY, RONALD J | Employer name Town of Amherst | Amount $73,382.47 | Date 05/12/1997 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name BAILEY, LESLIE S | Employer name Mohawk Correctional Facility | Amount $73,382.03 | Date 01/05/1998 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name APREA, MELISSA S | Employer name Cornell University | Amount $73,381.61 | Date 06/25/2001 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name SANDIFORD, JOHN B | Employer name Town of Oyster Bay | Amount $73,381.51 | Date 08/25/2004 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name DRUMM, KATHY A | Employer name Mid-State Corr Facility | Amount $73,381.10 | Date 04/26/1999 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name CRAIG, RONALD G | Employer name Long Island St Pk And Rec Regn | Amount $73,381.05 | Date 02/21/1989 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name DRY, JASON R | Employer name Cattaraugus County | Amount $73,380.90 | Date 05/02/1996 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name WURST, JEFFREY M | Employer name Children & Family Services | Amount $73,380.59 | Date 03/26/2001 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name WOJCIK, DIANE M | Employer name Rensselaer County | Amount $73,380.06 | Date 12/13/2004 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name FAISON, JESSE L | Employer name Village of Mineola | Amount $73,379.95 | Date 03/15/1990 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name FEHRINGER, BEVERLY A | Employer name Cattaraugus County | Amount $73,379.56 | Date 09/15/2008 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name GEBEL, FRANK W | Employer name Plainview-Old Bethpage CSD | Amount $73,379.42 | Date 12/18/2007 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name MANLEY, JAMES E | Employer name Town of Webster | Amount $73,379.32 | Date 08/29/2000 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name MONOPOLI, DOMINIC J | Employer name Town of Yorktown | Amount $73,379.18 | Date 06/25/1996 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name SHUMAN, EDWARD A, JR | Employer name City of Kingston | Amount $73,378.93 | Date 03/01/2004 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System |
| Name SHAW, IMRAN | Employer name Nassau County | Amount $73,378.91 | Date 10/02/2008 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name SWEENEY, PATRICIA K | Employer name Hudson Valley DDSO | Amount $73,378.62 | Date 10/06/1983 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name MC NERNEY, TURAN | Employer name City of Yonkers | Amount $73,378.43 | Date 11/23/1987 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name CAPIZZANO, FERDINANDO | Employer name City of New Rochelle | Amount $73,378.05 | Date 06/12/2000 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name CIPRIONI, MATTHEW R | Employer name City of Troy | Amount $73,377.31 | Date 08/05/2000 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System |
| Name PADASAK, LAWRENCE P | Employer name Orchard Park CSD | Amount $73,376.66 | Date 12/06/1974 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name BUCHANAN, GERARD M | Employer name Rensselaer County | Amount $73,376.61 | Date 09/04/2007 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name BHATTACHARYA, RAKHI | Employer name Brooklyn Public Library | Amount $73,376.49 | Date 07/19/1993 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name MAZUR, MICHAEL J | Employer name Dept Transportation Region 10 | Amount $73,376.30 | Date 01/09/2012 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name ELLIS, NANCY J | Employer name Health Research Inc | Amount $73,375.90 | Date 07/14/1997 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name FONTANA, MICHAEL J | Employer name Niagara Frontier Trans Auth | Amount $73,375.82 | Date 09/20/2010 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System |
| Name ROBERTSON, DARRELL R | Employer name Wallkill Corr Facility | Amount $73,375.76 | Date 06/13/2000 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name ROBERTS, LLOYD A M | Employer name SUNY College at Purchase | Amount $73,375.27 | Date 01/08/1988 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name MASTRIA, ROSARIO | Employer name City of Middletown | Amount $73,375.22 | Date 07/23/1990 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name NAJAR, LINDA J | Employer name Finger Lakes DDSO | Amount $73,375.02 | Date 09/07/1995 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name MOSES, DANIEL J | Employer name City of Glens Falls | Amount $73,374.98 | Date 01/16/1994 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System |
| Name NAVEDA, OPHELIA | Employer name Insurance Dept-Liquidation Bur | Amount $73,374.44 | Date 01/24/1994 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name DEDRICK, HENRY C, JR | Employer name Dpt Environmental Conservation | Amount $73,374.25 | Date 07/15/2002 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name LA DUCA, MARY JO | Employer name Roswell Park Cancer Institute | Amount $73,374.20 | Date 03/13/2008 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name TENNEY, DENNIS F | Employer name Village of Woodbury | Amount $73,373.74 | Date 01/20/2009 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name HLADKI, STEPHEN J, JR | Employer name Nassau County | Amount $73,373.58 | Date 12/18/1998 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name KELLEHER, ROBERT P | Employer name Nassau County | Amount $73,373.58 | Date 12/18/1998 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name SPANN, STEVEN P | Employer name Nassau County | Amount $73,373.58 | Date 03/27/1998 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name ELSNER, LIISA K | Employer name Chappaqua CSD | Amount $73,373.21 | Date 02/01/2006 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name SARRUBBO, MICHAEL A, III | Employer name Coxsackie Corr Facility | Amount $73,373.02 | Date 08/06/2012 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name DI MARIA, GRACE | Employer name Hempstead Library | Amount $73,372.76 | Date 12/16/1996 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name PENG, LORI C | Employer name Department of Tax & Finance | Amount $73,372.36 | Date 07/12/2007 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name TIMPANO, JOSEPH J | Employer name Oneida County | Amount $73,372.34 | Date 01/04/1993 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name NEDD, CHAUNCEY | Employer name Village of Hempstead | Amount $73,372.14 | Date 02/08/1982 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name FARLEY, MICHAEL V | Employer name Bethlehem Public Library | Amount $73,372.02 | Date 05/01/1985 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name PALUMB, ANTHONY B | Employer name Town of Geddes | Amount $73,371.70 | Date 05/07/1990 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name MOLTZ, JOHN-PAUL P D | Employer name Onondaga County | Amount $73,371.66 | Date 04/23/2005 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name TENNER, MICHAEL G | Employer name Town of Harrison | Amount $73,371.52 | Date 01/11/2016 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name STERLING, ANDREW J | Employer name City of Albany | Amount $73,371.33 | Date 08/16/1999 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name ALBERTELLI, MICHELLE D | Employer name Monroe County | Amount $73,371.12 | Date 05/15/2000 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name MITCHELL, NIGEL W | Employer name Port Authority of NY & NJ | Amount $73,370.72 | Date 01/08/2001 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name WALTON, NA-KIA S | Employer name Dept of Correctional Services | Amount $73,370.41 | Date 10/06/2006 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name MICHALSKI, WALDEMAR A | Employer name East Meadow UFSD | Amount $73,370.17 | Date 04/01/2004 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name ROSANIO, MICHAEL F | Employer name Central NY Regn Plan & Dev Bd | Amount $73,370.14 | Date 08/15/1988 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name ROBINSON, JAMES | Employer name Oceanside Sanitary District #7 | Amount $73,369.48 | Date 09/06/1988 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name VILLAMIL, EDGAR A | Employer name Dept Labor - Manpower | Amount $73,369.38 | Date 09/15/1988 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name LEMBKE, RENEE G | Employer name Monroe County | Amount $73,369.23 | Date 08/31/2009 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name REGAN, MARY R | Employer name Dept Labor - Manpower | Amount $73,369.10 | Date 06/26/1984 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name ROBICH, JOHN M | Employer name Office For Technology | Amount $73,369.01 | Date 12/17/1998 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name HUBNER, THOMAS M | Employer name Town of Brookhaven | Amount $73,368.89 | Date 04/28/1986 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name HASSETT, KENNETH P | Employer name Town of Niskayuna | Amount $73,367.96 | Date 08/02/1991 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name CLEMENTI, PATRICIA A | Employer name Yonkers City School Dist | Amount $73,367.86 | Date 02/13/1995 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name MCSHANE, DONA MARIE | Employer name Department of Health | Amount $73,367.68 | Date 03/06/2000 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name JOHNSTON, PAUL W | Employer name Capital District DDSO | Amount $73,367.65 | Date 08/15/1994 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name WESTON, WILLIAM J | Employer name Suffolk County | Amount $73,367.09 | Date 03/10/1986 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name WIESERNER, DAVID P, JR | Employer name Green Haven Corr Facility | Amount $73,366.98 | Date 05/16/2005 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name BESSETTE, REARDON T | Employer name Gouverneur Correction Facility | Amount $73,366.79 | Date 03/01/2004 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name LYNUM, LEVAR J | Employer name City of Peekskill | Amount $73,366.60 | Date 06/27/2001 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name MC GRATH, JAMES F | Employer name Ulster County | Amount $73,366.01 | Date 03/08/1993 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name SILIPO, JASON M | Employer name Oneida County | Amount $73,365.29 | Date 10/22/1998 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name FOGGETT, JOHN T | Employer name Rochester City School Dist | Amount $73,365.16 | Date 01/10/1991 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name MOSS, JEFFREY R | Employer name SUNY Stony Brook | Amount $73,365.07 | Date 11/13/2015 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name NELSON, KENWYN | Employer name Ulster Correction Facility | Amount $73,364.97 | Date 06/09/1997 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name VANDESPOOL, ALEXIS | Employer name Port Authority of NY & NJ | Amount $73,364.81 | Date 05/16/2011 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name DECKER, SCOTT M | Employer name City of Port Jervis | Amount $73,364.56 | Date 02/09/2000 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
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