Plumbing supervisor Jakub Markowski, 41, is under investigation. Instagram/Jakub Markowski
Posted on 07/08/2026 5:12:37 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
He’s flush with cash.
A NYCHA plumber who’s one of New York City’s highest-paid employees is in hot water after claiming he worked nearly 2,600 hours of overtime.
Plumbing supervisor Jakub Markowski, 41, faces an investigation by the city more than a year after The Post exposed him as New York City government’s biggest overtime hog, clogging his bank account with a staggering $332,000 in extra pay during the 2025 fiscal year.
A spokesperson said the city Department of Buildings opened a probe into Markowski — who drew a whopping $465,000 paycheck from the city — after receiving a complaint into his “business practices.”
Markowski, who lives in an upscale apartment building off the Rockaway Beach boardwalk, didn’t return a request for comment. His wife Elizabeth Markwowska, 63, perhaps unsurprisingly, said he was working.
“He works seven days a week,” she told The Post from their home Wednesday.
Plumbing supervisor Jakub Markowski, 41, is under investigation. Instagram/Jakub Markowski
Markowski also ran two private businesses – Super Plumbers Corp. NYC and Dynamic Blue Water Mechanical — as he drew his stinks-to-high-heaven paycheck from the New York City Housing Authority, state records show.
In addition to the DOB investigation into Markowski’s business practices, officials said they also conducted a sweep of active plumbing jobs in which he was the permit holder to make sure they were completed safely.
The sweep found no violations, DOB officials said.
Markowski ranks as the fifth-highest-paid city employee, according to records and the Empire Center watchdog.
Without his whopping 2,558 hours of overtime logged, Markowski’s gross regular pay during the 2025 fiscal year would have stood at a respectable $118,000.
He would have had to work an average of seven extra hours a day for 365 days straight to draw his outsize paycheck,...
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This 41 year old man is married to a 63 year old woman. I’m suspecting he’s been scamming her also.
15 hours a day at his Government job, then 7 hours to run his two private businesses … yeah right
Busy man.
Markowski’s gross regular 2025 fiscal year pay would have been a respectable $118,000.
He boosted his paycheck dramatically, claiming he logged a whopping 2,558 hours of overtime.
To get paid for 2,558 hours of overtime and grab an outsize paycheck:
<><>He would have had to work an average of seven extra hours a day
<><>for 365 consecutive days in a row.
Here’s Josephine, my favorite plumber:
50 HOURS A WEEK OF OVERTIME????????
What with NYC going to shit, what would one expect?
As my brother who is also a plumber used to say, 1 man’s shit is another’s bread and butter...
And the work was done properly. From the article: ...officials said they also conducted a sweep of active plumbing jobs in which he was the permit holder to make sure they were completed safely. The sweep found no violations...
"You want to wait for fix? or you want fixed now? You check box I was here."
Takes a lotta crap.
Actually, that could explain why he works 15 hours a day, seven days a week.
im guessing union rules for like double or triple overtime, or min hours for callouts.
To get paid for 2,558 hours of overtime and grab an outsize paycheck:
<><>He would have had to work an average of seven extra hours a day
<><>for 365 consecutive days in a row.
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If he ACTUALLY worked that many hours. My bet would be that his actual overtime worked was accompanied by a SUBSTANTIAL amount of overtime/time-sheets records falsification. Such fraud happens a lot with government employees at all levels.
“A Municipal Compensation Anomaly
An ongoing investigation by New York City financial watchdogs has revealed that a plumbing supervisor employed by the troubled public housing authority amassed an astonishing $465,034 (approximately KES 78.1 million) in compensation during the 2025 fiscal year. The staggering payout, driven by an accumulation of thousands of overtime hours, propelled the mid-level tradesman into the highest echelons of municipal earners, surpassing the salaries of the city mayor and the state governor.
The unprecedented financial haul exposes severe systemic vulnerabilities within public infrastructure management and union-mandated payroll practices. Furthermore, investigations indicating the employee concurrently operated private plumbing contracting businesses have ignited fierce demands for stringent oversight—a governance failure that strongly resonates with anti-corruption agencies tracking public sector bloat and ghost-worker syndicates across global municipalities.
Deconstructing the $465,000 Payday
According to comprehensive payroll data analyzed by the Empire Center for Public Policy, Jakub Markowski, a supervisor plumber with the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), recorded a base salary of roughly $133,220. However, he systematically accumulated $331,814 in overtime payments by logging nearly 2,560 extra hours over a 12-month period. This equates to working an improbable average of 49 hours of overtime every single week, in addition to standard operational shifts.
This compensation anomaly is facilitated by complex municipal labor contracts. Analysis reveals that call-back guarantees, holiday premiums, and prevailing wage schedules negotiated by trade unions compound exponentially. When skilled workers like plumbers and steamfitters are deployed to address emergency infrastructure failures within NYCHA’s decaying portfolio of 170,000 apartments, the overtime multipliers trigger massive financial windfalls.
While the Housing Authority defends the expenditure by citing an urgent requirement to service aging infrastructure 24 hours a day, government accountability groups classify the practice as gross fiscal mismanagement resulting from critical understaffing in essential trades.
The Private Contracting Conflict
The controversy escalated significantly when Department of Buildings (DOB) records linked Markowski to extensive private commercial activity conducted simultaneously with his municipal duties. Markowski, a licensed master plumber, was listed on permits tied to more than 70 private plumbing jobs in affluent neighborhoods, including the Upper East Side and Brooklyn Heights, during the exact period he claimed maximum city overtime.
These lucrative private projects were executed through two distinct corporate entities: Super Plumbers Corp NYC and Dynamic Blue Water Mechanical. While Markowski allegedly received a waiver in 2019 permitting limited outside employment, NYCHA officials confirmed he failed to secure the necessary updated authorizations following his promotion to a supervisory role in 2024.”
Markowski is a liar and a thief.
Is he an employee or a contractor?
Is there no end to fraud by government employees (i.e, parasites)?
Whatever his actual work profile, he clearly works his azz off, thus setting up a bad comparison with lazy city workers and public-assistance layabouts alike.
I expect he will be made an example of, in some way.
Probably the least corrupt employee of the city. Even if he funneled all the contracts to his other two companies it appears he actually fulfilled jobs. Meanwhile, some imported illegal alien trash can make millions with a tax payer funded charity handout.
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