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 UPPSTROM, JESSE K | Employer name Bare Hill Correction Facility | Amount $71,269.26 | Date 06/14/2004 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name SIMS, TALEMA | Employer name Taconic Corr Facility | Amount $71,268.91 | Date 07/10/1995 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name SWITZER, JOSEPH P | Employer name Gowanda Correctional Facility | Amount $71,268.67 | Date 06/28/2004 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name FEDORYK, ANDREW W | Employer name Creedmoor Psych Center | Amount $71,268.40 | Date 03/17/1988 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name VALENTA, PHILLIP A | Employer name SUNY Binghamton | Amount $71,267.33 | Date 07/19/2011 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name SANTOS, YDANIA D | Employer name Rockland County | Amount $71,267.23 | Date 07/02/2012 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name PARROTTA, JOAN M | Employer name SUNY at Stony Brook Hospital | Amount $71,267.17 | Date 05/04/2006 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name OGDEN, RICHARD | Employer name Green Haven Corr Facility | Amount $71,267.00 | Date 11/05/1992 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name ELLIOTT, ARNOLD S | Employer name Manhattan Psych Center | Amount $71,266.90 | Date 12/11/1989 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name GRUKA, CHRISTOPHER M | Employer name Collins Corr Facility | Amount $71,266.79 | Date 04/01/2013 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name OCASIO, VICTOR | Employer name Village of Rockville Centre | Amount $71,266.70 | Date 07/08/2002 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name ASHE, JUSTIN B | Employer name City of Troy | Amount $71,266.39 | Date 12/13/2005 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System |
| Name ENGLISH, SHERYL L | Employer name NYS Office People Devel Disab | Amount $71,266.27 | Date 11/06/1997 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name CASEY, DANIEL W | Employer name Rockland County | Amount $71,266.01 | Date 02/25/1988 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name BAKER, CLIFFORD J, JR | Employer name City of Rome | Amount $71,265.80 | Date 01/24/2006 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System |
| Name HUNTER, ROSEMARIE C | Employer name Hudson Valley DDSO | Amount $71,265.77 | Date 03/23/2000 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name CARR, MATTHEW L | Employer name Wayne County | Amount $71,265.23 | Date 02/22/1993 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name FARNSWORTH, JASON P | Employer name Bare Hill Correction Facility | Amount $71,265.10 | Date 01/05/2004 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name MANCINI, DAVID J | Employer name SUNY College Techn Morrisville | Amount $71,264.73 | Date 06/09/2008 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name DIEHSNER, TERESA | Employer name Dpt Environmental Conservation | Amount $71,264.72 | Date 10/01/1980 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name GOLDEN, VIRGINIA R | Employer name Longwood CSD at Middle Island | Amount $71,264.61 | Date 02/06/2007 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name BERRETTA, JOSEPH A | Employer name Rockland County | Amount $71,264.60 | Date 02/03/2014 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name LAMB, KEVIN S | Employer name SUNY Buffalo | Amount $71,264.32 | Date 12/20/2010 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name KOHL, MARIE | Employer name Oneida County | Amount $71,264.30 | Date 01/05/1993 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name BABIE, KYLE M | Employer name Office For Technology | Amount $71,264.03 | Date 03/24/2009 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name BISSINGER, ROBIN F | Employer name Ulster County | Amount $71,263.75 | Date 04/29/1996 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name FRITTON, MARTIN J | Employer name Niagara Frontier Trans Auth | Amount $71,263.72 | Date 03/24/1986 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name HARRINGTON, CHRISTOPHER E | Employer name City of Albany | Amount $71,263.43 | Date 08/18/2000 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System |
| Name BRYSON, JIHAN M | Employer name HSC at Syracuse-Hospital | Amount $71,262.71 | Date 03/03/2011 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name CARD, KRISTIN A | Employer name Chemung County | Amount $71,262.63 | Date 12/04/1995 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name GODFREY, DANTON P | Employer name Collins Corr Facility | Amount $71,262.55 | Date 04/19/2004 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name CIPRO, COLLEEN M | Employer name HSC at Syracuse-Hospital | Amount $71,262.37 | Date 04/17/2003 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name RUSSELL, MELISSA M | Employer name Clinton Corr Facility | Amount $71,261.51 | Date 07/02/2001 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name AMES, JUSTIN M | Employer name Rockland County | Amount $71,261.03 | Date 09/01/2014 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name LICATA, MARISSA L | Employer name Rockland County | Amount $71,261.03 | Date 09/01/2014 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name WOOD, KENNETH G | Employer name Great Meadow Corr Facility | Amount $71,260.92 | Date 04/01/2013 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name VINCENT, DANIELLE | Employer name Bernard Fineson Dev Center | Amount $71,259.13 | Date 12/01/2001 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name ERICKSON, NIKLAS E | Employer name City of Cohoes | Amount $71,258.48 | Date 08/12/2013 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System |
| Name CORTESE, FRANCESCO D, JR | Employer name Port Authority of NY & NJ | Amount $71,258.36 | Date 03/07/2014 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System |
| Name CALORICO, RICHARD M | Employer name City of Buffalo | Amount $71,258.30 | Date 08/15/1994 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name MC QUILLAN, FREDERICK M | Employer name Westchester County | Amount $71,258.05 | Date 04/30/2012 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name NEYMAN, JOHN | Employer name Sachem CSD at Holbrook | Amount $71,258.05 | Date 04/05/1999 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name HALL, TASHARA T | Employer name Nassau County | Amount $71,257.99 | Date 09/15/2006 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name LARKINS, PATRICK C, JR | Employer name Jefferson County | Amount $71,257.98 | Date 02/18/2014 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name ZWERLING, LISA R | Employer name Boces Eastern Suffolk | Amount $71,257.61 | Date 10/25/2004 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name MURRAY, BARBARA ANNE | Employer name Brentwood UFSD | Amount $71,257.25 | Date 10/27/1999 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name CONZONE, PAUL S | Employer name City of Oswego | Amount $71,256.80 | Date 09/04/2007 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System |
| Name ZAWISTOWSKI, TINA M | Employer name Five Points Corr Facility | Amount $71,256.76 | Date 10/28/2002 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name SCHARPOU, EDWARD H | Employer name Village of Dolgeville | Amount $71,256.76 | Date 09/24/1990 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name BACON, AMENDA R | Employer name Southport Correction Facility | Amount $71,256.68 | Date 07/31/1987 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name JAQUITH, CHAD D | Employer name Lakeview Shock Incarc Facility | Amount $71,256.15 | Date 03/20/2006 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name ROOF, TERRENCE P | Employer name Wyoming Corr Facility | Amount $71,255.85 | Date 08/31/1999 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name FIUME FREDDO, SALVATORE J | Employer name Westchester County | Amount $71,255.76 | Date 06/13/2011 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name EDWARDS, BRYAN D | Employer name Cayuga Correctional Facility | Amount $71,255.04 | Date 07/10/2006 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name DESIMONE, MARIANNE | Employer name HSC at Syracuse-Hospital | Amount $71,254.98 | Date 06/25/2015 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name WOODCOCK, JONATHAN H | Employer name Mohawk Correctional Facility | Amount $71,254.31 | Date 11/18/2013 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name SIMMONS, RYAN M | Employer name Ogdensburg Corr Facility | Amount $71,254.11 | Date 11/29/2004 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name FITZGERALD, D.PATRICK | Employer name Department of Health | Amount $71,253.13 | Date 01/10/1994 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name MILLER, MELISSA D | Employer name Office of General Services | Amount $71,253.10 | Date 09/11/2014 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name FEDORCHAK, DAVID H | Employer name Department of Law | Amount $71,253.10 | Date 09/25/2014 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name BALBIAN, DAVID R | Employer name Cornell University | Amount $71,253.00 | Date 01/28/1991 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name WENDELL, ALEAH R | Employer name NYS Higher Education Services | Amount $71,252.76 | Date 02/12/1981 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name NELSON, DARIN J | Employer name Erie County Medical Center Corp. | Amount $71,252.75 | Date 02/10/2014 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name WHITE, MARTIN J | Employer name Great Meadow Corr Facility | Amount $71,252.73 | Date 11/22/1993 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name BERUBE, AARON C | Employer name Cato-Meridian CSD | Amount $71,252.40 | Date 07/01/2003 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name THEAL, STEVEN J | Employer name Erie County | Amount $71,252.33 | Date 09/10/2012 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name THOMPSON, TALIAH M | Employer name Nassau Health Care Corp. | Amount $71,252.25 | Date 07/24/2000 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name PITTORE, HEATHER | Employer name Boces Westchester Sole Supvsry | Amount $71,252.14 | Date 08/04/1999 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name COULOMBE, RAYMOND P | Employer name Boces-Wayne Finger Lakes | Amount $71,252.14 | Date 05/06/1985 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name WILLIAMS, DAVID L | Employer name Capital Dist Trans Authority | Amount $71,252.00 | Date 07/13/2015 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name BUTTS, SHANEA M | Employer name Orange County | Amount $71,251.96 | Date 08/18/2000 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name DUFRESNE, NEIL L | Employer name Children & Family Services | Amount $71,251.05 | Date 01/18/2002 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name LINDBLAD, TINA M | Employer name Ithaca City School Dist | Amount $71,250.97 | Date 03/19/1990 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name HUDSON, MONIQUE R | Employer name Appellate Div 1St Dept | Amount $71,250.96 | Date 08/26/1998 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name BUTTS, ERAINA A | Employer name Rockland Psych Center Children | Amount $71,250.72 | Date 09/10/2001 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name CICCONE, ALBERT J | Employer name City of Rome | Amount $71,250.69 | Date 01/20/1998 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System |
| Name ROGERS, BRIAN K | Employer name Office of Mental Health | Amount $71,250.40 | Date 03/24/2005 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name PALMER, LAURIE J | Employer name Monroe County | Amount $71,250.10 | Date 06/26/1986 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name COTTER, JUSTIN M | Employer name Village of Fultonville | Amount $71,249.82 | Date 10/31/2015 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name KANCHAN, ROHIT | Employer name Office For Technology | Amount $71,249.23 | Date 09/08/2005 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name BONI, DEXTER W | Employer name Schenectady County | Amount $71,249.19 | Date 12/13/2009 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name BECKWITH, MATTHEW J | Employer name Wyoming Corr Facility | Amount $71,248.95 | Date 10/31/2005 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name LACEY, MICHELLE D | Employer name City of Fulton | Amount $71,248.78 | Date 02/21/2006 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System |
| Name DE NARDO, FREDRICK J | Employer name Auburn Corr Facility | Amount $71,248.72 | Date 08/11/2003 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name MYHRE, CHRISTIANE S | Employer name Albany County | Amount $71,248.72 | Date 04/02/1999 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name BRINK, MICHAEL J | Employer name Town of Wallkill | Amount $71,248.56 | Date 12/10/2004 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name VERNOOY, BRIAN P | Employer name Ulster Correction Facility | Amount $71,248.51 | Date 10/31/2002 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name LENHART, DEAN A | Employer name City of Rome | Amount $71,248.50 | Date 03/26/2007 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System |
| Name RODRIGUEZ, ESTHER N | Employer name Otisville Corr Facility | Amount $71,248.37 | Date 10/08/2007 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name FRENCH, JAMES G | Employer name City of Syracuse | Amount $71,247.51 | Date 05/29/1990 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name KIPP, GREGORY D | Employer name Albany Housing Authority | Amount $71,247.43 | Date 06/08/1992 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name MC EVOY, WILLIAM P | Employer name Nassau County | Amount $71,247.32 | Date 05/05/2014 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System |
| Name MILIUS, KIM I | Employer name Boces Eastern Suffolk | Amount $71,247.32 | Date 03/16/1987 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name EVANOVICH, NICHOLAS J | Employer name Clinton County | Amount $71,246.83 | Date 01/24/2011 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name OLENSKI, KRISSY J | Employer name Dept Transportation Region 9 | Amount $71,246.82 | Date 05/24/2004 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name WEBER, ALEXANDER J | Employer name Village of Babylon | Amount $71,246.57 | Date 12/17/2009 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name WILLIAMS, BARBARA J | Employer name Monroe County | Amount $71,246.43 | Date 11/16/1987 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name MARKS, CHARBRENNA A | Employer name Erie County | Amount $71,246.32 | Date 05/31/1994 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name HOFFMAN, BRIAN M | Employer name Schenectady City School Dist | Amount $71,246.32 | Date 11/09/2011 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name NABOZNY, JEFFREY D | Employer name Great Meadow Corr Facility | Amount $71,245.97 | Date 12/10/2012 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
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