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New York Public Authorities employee compensation

Source file: New York State Public Authorities — Payroll (NYS Open Data) / ingested Jun 19, 2026

In 2024, New York Public Authorities reported 112,831 employees across 41 departments, with a total payroll of $10.7B. The highest-paid distinct record was Michael Israel (Westchester County Health Care Corporation) at $4,783,252.

Latest year
2024
Total payroll
$10.7B
Departments
41
Employees
112,831
Top record
$4,783,252

What the records show

Department analytics

Median pay and headcount show where payroll dollars concentrate and which agencies define the jurisdiction’s compensation profile.

Largest departments

The 12 departments employing the most people in 2024. Bar length is headcount. These departments drive most of the payroll and set the overall pay mix.

Highest-paying departments

Departments ranked by median total compensation — the typical employee's pay. High medians usually signal specialized or professional workforces (e.g. medical, legal, or public-safety agencies) rather than across-the-board higher pay.

Compared with the local labor market

New York Public Authorities pay vs. the surrounding job market

Across 317 roles that match a standard occupation, New York Public Authorities’s median base salary runs 5% below the median wage for the same work in New York. 129 of those roles pay above the local median and 188 pay below it.

Roles compared
317
Above local median
129
Below local median
188
Typical gap
−5%

This covers the 77,174 employees (68% of the workforce) in roles whose job titles map to a standard occupation. Titles that are too generic to match one — broad classification series, and job families the survey reports by academic field — are left out rather than guessed at, so the figure describes the comparable subset, not the entire payroll.

Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.

Trend

Year over year

How New York Public Authorities's total payroll, headcount, and average pay changed across the 8 published years. Average pay is total payroll divided by employees.

YearTotal payrollEmployeesAverage pay
2017
$8.7B
114,281
$76,334
2018
$9.3B
6.2%
116,653
2.1%
$79,418
4.0%
2019
$9.3B
0.4%
115,694
0.8%
$80,433
1.3%
2020
$8.9B
4.7%
107,443
7.1%
$82,538
2.6%
2021
$8.7B
2.1%
102,596
4.5%
$84,643
2.6%
2022
$9.2B
5.5%
107,206
4.5%
$85,470
1.0%
2023
$10.3B
12.4%
110,999
3.5%
$92,779
8.6%
2024
$10.7B
3.8%
112,831
1.7%
$94,758
2.1%

Department index

Open an agency file

Department pages break down pay distributions, common job titles, and the employees behind the latest published payroll.

41 departments

Metropolitan Transportation Authority81,028$98,569
Erie County Medical Center Corporation4,759$66,678
Westchester County Health Care Corporation4,018$104,182
Roswell Park Cancer Institute Corporation3,921$79,016
New York Convention Center Operating Corporation2,837$10,005
Power Authority of the State of New York2,725$123,105
New York State Thruway Authority2,023$80,290
New York State Olympic Regional Development Authority1,980$7,909
Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority1,661$66,772
Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority1,161$52,928
Capital District Transportation Authority930$71,517
Central New York Regional Transportation Authority773$50,279
Dormitory Authority of the State of New York610$95,167
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority554$110,838
New York State Urban Development Corporation473$82,691
State of New York Mortgage Agency358$134
State of New York Municipal Bond Bank Agency358$0
Tobacco Settlement Financing Corporation358$0
New York State Housing Finance Agency358$0
New York State Affordable Housing Corporation355$2,456
Battery Park City Authority223$52,767
Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation182$60,366
New York State Bridge Authority166$74,269
Housing Trust Fund Corporation158$88,258
Hudson River Park Trust135$53,998
Environmental Facilities Corporation120$83,010
Development Authority of the North Country116$63,499
Port of Oswego Authority114$3,589
Long Island Power Authority95$136,548
Natural Heritage Trust89$51,390
Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority75$8,730
Nelson a Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Performing Arts Center Operating Corporation53$4,563
Hudson River-Black River Regulating District25$68,312
United Nations Development Corporation11$119,046
Greenway Conservancy for the Hudson River Valley, Inc.6$74,184
New York State Thoroughbred Breeding Development Fund6$86,284
Nassau County Interim Finance Authority6$179,924
Buffalo Fiscal Stability Authority5$91,946
Erie County Fiscal Stability Authority3$70,567
Albany Convention Center Authority2$78,609
New York Job Development Authority1$0