Posted on 09/06/2011 11:14:11 AM PDT by NoLibZone
A city sewer worker made more last year than the police commissioner, the schools chancellor and the mayor - combined.
Senior engineer Gerald Mistretta's pay was $771,841 - and six of his co-workers raked in nearly as much - thanks to a wage settlement with the city.
His bottom line for the fiscal year that ended in June included a base salary of $109,850 a year, $173,000 in overtime - and nearly half a million dollars in back pay.
The Brooklyn father of three said the one-shot windfall - which made him the top earner among city employees last year - made up for 16 years he went without a raise.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/09/06/2011-09-06_capt_kaching_at_772g_sewer_worker_paid_more_than_any_city_employee_last_fiscal_y.html#ixzz1XCIATnrS
Six other senior Department of Environmental Protection workers made more than $700,000; 13 made in the $600,000 range, and 47 earned in the $400,000 or $500,000 range.
SAY WHAT?????.................
GMTA!................
THAT must be why the Amish were shootin’ the place up over the weekend.
fitting
Damn, beat me to it. Nicely done!
Wonder what Ralph has to say about that? Why not a bus driver?
C’mon now, that’s the poop of the most important people in the world he’s dealing with.
Just ask them, they’ll tell you.
MIBTM!
“You couldn’t pay me enough to walk in that” ???
I was hoping to see one of my favs
Ed Norton never made that kind of money.
Who said crime doesn’t pay??
This society is so corrupt I don’t want to read the news anymore. It is too demotivating.
This sewer engineer was getting paid $110K in 1994? And gets overtime? WITHOUT overtime that would be like a VP of Eng at a mid size aerospace company. (Maybe director). WITH risk. and - certainly - no overtime. Lucky to even take vacation granted.
A government engineer?
Mistretta and other sewer workers labored without a contract since 1995 because of a dispute over their base salaries. A deal struck in 2009 after years of litigation gave them retroactive hikes.
Six other senior Department of Environmental Protection workers made more than $700,000; 13 made in the $600,000 range, and 47 earned in the $400,000 or $500,000 range.
About a thousand more got lesser payments. Mistretta said his lump-sum payment meant he got soaked on taxes - and now his paychecks are back to normal.
Yeah, well, you can live pretty easily without a police commissioner or a school chancellor, but things’ll be pretty ugly in your apartment after a few days of not being able to flush...
;-)
Sewage engineers have a saying: “It may be sh!t and p!$$ to you — but, it’s bread and butter to us.”
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