Avg PA employee $ > Silicone Valley

Total cost of compensation is very different fromm salary. If Silicon Valley employees' average salary is above $100K, then their compensation will surely higher than that of PANYNJ employees. All the overheads for each employees are part of the cost of compensation.

Salary accounts for about 70% of TCC. That means they are about even. How do you think they compare in terms of age and level of experience? How many stock options did the Port Authority issue last year?

But you also have to consider that professional jobs in Silicon Valley are largely salary-based while PA employees are largely hourly wages, which means they get boatloads of overtime as well.

It is sad for America that when scientists and engineers make less than some unionized schmoe doing monkey work that can often be replaced by a machine, e.g., toll takers.

For PA salaries, see http://seethroughny.net

The highest-paid in 2010 was the Executive Director, at $305,000.

In the top 20 are several police lieutenants and sergeants, who doubled their pay with overtime. Good for them.

There're 147 Toll Collectors. Full-time rate of pay is about $57,000. With overtime, one made $99,000 in 2010. I think I'll pass when planning my next life.

instead of fighting real crime in neighborhoods and streets, the lieutenants and sergeants got easy double pay for just hanging around that construction side for years and doing nothing

$321,000 for a toll collector despite listing a salary of only $73k...

http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/traffic/traffic_news/audit-excessive-perks-for-nj-turnpike-employees-20101019-apx

dont forget that one NWT, and the hundreds of others who remain financially opaque thanks to unions shuffling of funds..

what's an extra $4B??

So when challenged on salaries at the Port Authority, you respond with figures related to...

the NJ Turnpike Authority. They are two different agencies. What they have in common is that neither has the power to tax.

So what is your point again?

@caonima: What qualifies as real crime? Terrorist attacks? How about the 37 port authority cops who died on 9/11? Was their pay justified?

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@caonima: What qualifies as real crime? Terrorist attacks? How about the 37 port authority cops who died on 9/11? Was their pay justified?

They didn't deserve to die, but their estates did receive payouts over and above if they had been otherwise killed in the line of duty.