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Port Authority salaries climbed $5 million last year, despite job cuts
A Port Authority police lieutenant was the agency’s sixth-highest paid employee in 2010 at $236,564, earning more than the superintendent of police and the two deputy chiefs to whom he reports, thanks to $112,466 in overtime last year.
Three Port Authority police lieutenants and four sergeants outearned Superintendent of Police Michael Fedorko’s $215,098 because of overtime pay, according to Port Authority salary records. Two deputy chiefs who earn $157,558 each also were left in the fiscal dust by the seven officers’ total pay for 2010.
An examination of salary and overtime records for 2010 and 2009 obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request showed that the authority, which increased tolls and PATH train fares this fall, spent $5 million more on salaries in 2010 than it did in 2009. This happened despite boasts by authority officials that the agency trimmed its work force as a cost-cutting measure. (Higgs, Gannett)
