Top NY state bureaucrats earn nearly $128,000/year

Reuters reports:

Almost 5,000 bureaucrats who work for New York public authorities earned an average of $127,915 in 2009, according to the first report by an agency created to safeguard the public interest.

The new findings could give more ammunition to fiscal monitors who say the cash-starved state cannot afford the public authorities' underperforming and bloated bureaucracies.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, often criticized for an over-abundance of administrators, had the highest number of workers -- 3,026 -- who earned at least $100,000 a year, said the Independent Authorities Budget Office's report.

Partly mirroring compensation in the private sector, the highest paid individual, with a yearly salary of $580,000, worked for the Roswell Park Cancer Institute Corporation.

The Buffalo-based research institute paid 324 individuals an average of $204,805 a year.

They sure are special!