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 CHARLES, ORIANA | Employer name State Insurance Fund-Admin | Amount $61,498.99 | Date 01/16/1992 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name ALEXANDER, SELESTE | Employer name Fishkill Corr Facility | Amount $61,498.83 | Date 06/09/1997 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name COPPOLA, NICHOLAS | Employer name Gowanda Correctional Facility | Amount $61,498.67 | Date 03/16/2015 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name BAKER, JOHN S | Employer name Attica Corr Facility | Amount $61,498.43 | Date 11/15/2001 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name DAVIS, MICHAEL G | Employer name Niagara Frontier Trans Auth | Amount $61,498.38 | Date 04/19/2010 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name CASTELLANO, RICHARD | Employer name City of Rye | Amount $61,498.20 | Date 08/20/2007 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name FOTI, FRANCIS M | Employer name Department of Tax & Finance | Amount $61,498.04 | Date 04/10/2014 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name MC DONOUGH, NATALIE | Employer name Bethlehem Public Library | Amount $61,497.04 | Date 12/10/1994 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name SHATNEY, RACHEL C | Employer name Albany City School Dist | Amount $61,497.04 | Date 01/05/2015 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name AUER, NANCY E | Employer name Village of Patchogue | Amount $61,496.58 | Date 11/16/1998 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name GRIFFIN, TERESA A | Employer name Cornell University | Amount $61,496.33 | Date 03/26/2001 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name KELLEY, JANET M | Employer name Schenectady County | Amount $61,495.73 | Date 01/02/2007 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name CRIFO, CAROL | Employer name Sachem CSD at Holbrook | Amount $61,495.58 | Date 01/24/2006 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name SWANSON, LA'GIE L | Employer name Western New York DDSO | Amount $61,495.37 | Date 06/01/1983 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name MOORE, JASON R | Employer name Gouverneur Correction Facility | Amount $61,495.30 | Date 11/17/2014 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name NANRY, TIMOTHY J | Employer name Division of State Police | Amount $61,495.00 | Date 03/28/2016 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System |
| Name KENNEDY, LUCINDA M | Employer name Cortland City School Dist | Amount $61,494.92 | Date 08/25/2008 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name MUNSON, KAREN A | Employer name SUNY College at Oneonta | Amount $61,494.86 | Date 08/28/2006 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name MAUCERI, DONNA | Employer name Hauppauge Public Library | Amount $61,494.27 | Date 04/07/2001 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name SALAS, MINERVA | Employer name Sing Sing Corr Facility | Amount $61,494.24 | Date 12/22/2014 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name AVILA, KAREN | Employer name Nassau County | Amount $61,494.01 | Date 11/30/2012 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name BANKS, LORRAINE I | Employer name City of Middletown | Amount $61,493.46 | Date 10/14/1986 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name SIGNER, SUZANNE | Employer name Sachem CSD at Holbrook | Amount $61,493.34 | Date 10/12/2004 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name VEGA, NOEMI J | Employer name New York Public Library | Amount $61,493.33 | Date 08/27/2007 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name BAUMEISTER, JEFFREY P | Employer name Town of Yorktown | Amount $61,493.30 | Date 06/18/2007 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name BETRO, LAUREN M | Employer name SUNY Stony Brook | Amount $61,492.85 | Date 12/04/2014 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name TRUPIA, EILEEN M | Employer name Connetquot Public Library | Amount $61,492.69 | Date 06/25/2002 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name WILSON, BARRIE E, JR | Employer name Sachem CSD at Holbrook | Amount $61,492.58 | Date 01/08/1996 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name LEMANSKI, JACQUELINE | Employer name Pilgrim Psych Center | Amount $61,492.41 | Date 06/03/2013 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name REINHART, CAROLE J | Employer name Department of Tax & Finance | Amount $61,492.15 | Date 10/18/2005 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name TUPPER, JODIE A | Employer name Central NY DDSO | Amount $61,492.08 | Date 07/21/2005 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name CATALANO-WACKER, KARIN M | Employer name Erie County | Amount $61,492.04 | Date 04/22/2002 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name FISHER, ANDREW J | Employer name Supreme Ct-1St Civil Branch | Amount $61,491.81 | Date 03/03/2014 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name CRAWFORD, HUGH A | Employer name Nassau County | Amount $61,491.52 | Date 08/01/2001 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name KIESINGER, RONALD E | Employer name Town of Williamson | Amount $61,491.32 | Date 11/14/2005 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name SNOWDON, STEWART G | Employer name Cape Vincent Corr Facility | Amount $61,491.28 | Date 04/19/1993 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name ROOT, LINDSAY L | Employer name SUNY Health Sci Center Syracuse | Amount $61,491.09 | Date 10/29/2009 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name SMITH, DEXTER | Employer name Hempstead UFSD | Amount $61,490.89 | Date 07/01/1990 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name ORLOWSKI, JOHN J | Employer name Oceanside UFSD | Amount $61,490.54 | Date 03/02/1992 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name STEVENS, DEAN M | Employer name Auburn Corr Facility | Amount $61,490.43 | Date 06/29/2015 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name LANE, NICHOLAS A | Employer name Suffolk County | Amount $61,490.30 | Date 09/14/2015 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System |
| Name BENACK, BRADLEY M | Employer name Onondaga County | Amount $61,489.75 | Date 12/14/1999 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name NIELSEN, JAIME L | Employer name City of Oswego | Amount $61,489.63 | Date 08/22/2014 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System |
| Name GILLIGAN, AMANDA | Employer name Islip UFSD | Amount $61,489.00 | Date 09/14/2009 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name AUGONE, NANCY A | Employer name Suffolk County | Amount $61,488.70 | Date 06/24/2002 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name OSTENDORFF, JANE A | Employer name Suffolk County | Amount $61,488.70 | Date 10/12/1972 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name DUPUIS, MARK R | Employer name Village of Tupper Lake | Amount $61,488.50 | Date 07/31/1989 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name TEMPENY, TIMOTHY F | Employer name Village of Kenmore | Amount $61,487.86 | Date 08/22/1990 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name ROBERTS, BERTRAM C | Employer name SUNY Health Sci Center Brooklyn | Amount $61,487.79 | Date 12/12/1983 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name WINNEY, MICHAEL E | Employer name Hale Creek Asactc | Amount $61,487.34 | Date 01/29/2004 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name WALKER, MARY L | Employer name South Huntington UFSD | Amount $61,487.26 | Date 05/17/2000 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name PARKER, DONNA J | Employer name Department of Tax & Finance | Amount $61,486.67 | Date 07/15/1986 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name RODRIGUEZ, EDWIN | Employer name South Beach Childrens Serv | Amount $61,486.63 | Date 02/06/2014 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name POVOLOTSKY, GINA M | Employer name Port Authority of NY & NJ | Amount $61,486.50 | Date 06/25/1985 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name CAVANAUGH, MATTHEW W | Employer name East Islip UFSD | Amount $61,486.23 | Date 09/25/2009 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name MACIEJEWSKI, DAVID F | Employer name Erie County | Amount $61,486.06 | Date 05/19/1997 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name RANDALL, JAMI L | Employer name Boces-Wayne Finger Lakes | Amount $61,485.92 | Date 07/07/2015 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name TREMBLAY, LISABETH T | Employer name Energy Research Dev Authority | Amount $61,485.67 | Date 12/08/2014 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name FANZO, VINCENT, JR | Employer name Steuben County | Amount $61,485.47 | Date 08/02/2004 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name MC CONNON, RYAN J | Employer name Division of State Police | Amount $61,485.03 | Date 03/28/2016 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System |
| Name HARBOURNE, MARC J | Employer name Fishkill Corr Facility | Amount $61,484.79 | Date 09/09/2013 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name YOUNG, ANNE E | Employer name Central NY DDSO | Amount $61,484.79 | Date 11/23/2007 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name VANDENBURGH, JASON M | Employer name Rensselaer County | Amount $61,484.51 | Date 08/17/2000 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name DAVIS, BRANTLEY D | Employer name SUNY College Technology Alfred | Amount $61,484.40 | Date 09/16/1983 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name FINGAR, ORLENA B | Employer name Green Haven Corr Facility | Amount $61,483.72 | Date 08/06/2012 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name MARTENS, STEPHEN A | Employer name Village of Amityville | Amount $61,483.72 | Date 12/09/1994 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name SMUTZ, MARCELENE A | Employer name NYS Power Authority | Amount $61,483.54 | Date 09/05/1995 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name KYLE, STEPHANIE A | Employer name Mastics Moriches Shirley Libr | Amount $61,483.48 | Date 03/05/2002 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name ZHU, YINAN | Employer name SUNY College Techn Farmingdale | Amount $61,483.34 | Date 10/01/2015 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name BOCCARD, CHARLES P | Employer name Town of Huntington | Amount $61,482.71 | Date 10/20/1986 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name CLARK, MATTHEW J | Employer name Town of Huntington | Amount $61,482.71 | Date 07/11/2001 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name SICA, RANDI V | Employer name Cambridge CSD | Amount $61,482.48 | Date 09/22/1987 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name DESIDERO, VICTORIA A | Employer name Town of Southeast | Amount $61,482.44 | Date 06/04/2010 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name CAPOGNA, STEVEN | Employer name Suffolk County | Amount $61,482.30 | Date 11/14/2013 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System |
| Name CRESS, JERRE T | Employer name Chemung County | Amount $61,482.23 | Date 04/28/1988 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name HAMMEL, BRIAN M | Employer name Town of Smithtown | Amount $61,482.16 | Date 03/12/2007 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name TORRES, BRIAN C | Employer name Division of State Police | Amount $61,481.96 | Date 03/28/2016 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System |
| Name LYONS-D'AMBRO, EVELYN G | Employer name Children & Family Services | Amount $61,481.85 | Date 05/01/2006 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name VAUGHN, JASON M | Employer name City of Rochester | Amount $61,481.82 | Date 02/20/2009 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Police & Fire Retirement System |
| Name IMES, DARLINE W | Employer name Children & Family Services | Amount $61,481.42 | Date 01/19/1995 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name OCASIO, JORGE R | Employer name Woodbourne Corr Facility | Amount $61,481.37 | Date 06/11/2012 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name BELLE, DELORES | Employer name Nassau County | Amount $61,481.21 | Date 03/01/1998 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name PITTS, STEPHANIE L | Employer name Department of Law | Amount $61,481.05 | Date 07/17/2001 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name PLUMMER, JUDY A | Employer name Sunmount Dev Center | Amount $61,480.94 | Date 10/21/1993 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name GILLIGAN, ROBERT E | Employer name Long Island St Pk And Rec Regn | Amount $61,480.41 | Date 01/05/2000 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name BERGOVEC, BOJKA | Employer name E Syracuse-Minoa CSD | Amount $61,479.64 | Date 01/28/1993 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name DUBOY, MAURICE E, JR | Employer name Town of Bethlehem | Amount $61,479.60 | Date 12/08/2003 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name FUREY, JAMES R | Employer name NYS Gaming Commission | Amount $61,479.58 | Date 10/16/2006 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name KLIONSKIY, GENNADIY | Employer name SUNY College at Purchase | Amount $61,479.43 | Date 06/22/2000 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name LOWE, DONALD W | Employer name Town of Allegany | Amount $61,479.20 | Date 11/28/1991 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name JOHNSON, NICOLAS D | Employer name Warren County | Amount $61,479.18 | Date 03/26/2007 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name BASQUIN, VALERIE | Employer name Hudson Valley DDSO | Amount $61,478.80 | Date 12/21/2007 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name FERRARO, ANTHONY | Employer name Irvington UFSD | Amount $61,478.75 | Date 02/06/2001 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name PUGLISI, DEIRDRE K | Employer name Suffolk County | Amount $61,477.84 | Date 12/20/2004 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name PRENATT, GLENN E | Employer name SUNY Buffalo | Amount $61,477.71 | Date 02/02/1983 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name ORLOWSKI, JULY | Employer name Erie County | Amount $61,477.68 | Date 06/26/1998 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name ANDERSON, PATRICIA | Employer name Wappingers CSD | Amount $61,477.67 | Date 01/05/1995 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name KOORAPATI, SHEKTI T | Employer name Dpt Environmental Conservation | Amount $61,477.34 | Date 01/04/2016 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name ABBEY, RICHARD W | Employer name Western New York DDSO | Amount $61,477.34 | Date 06/22/2004 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
| Name SWENSON, KATHLEEN C | Employer name Nassau County | Amount $61,477.14 | Date 03/25/2003 | Fiscal year 2016-17 | Pension group Employee Retirement System |
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