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MTA's OT champ earned over $500k in total pay last year

23 collected more than $200,000 in overtime

BY RICHARD KHAVKINE
Posted 6/20/25

Nearly two dozen MTA workers collected over $200,000 in overtime alone last year, with one worker at the authority topping $308,000 in just OT, bringing his total salary to more than $500,000, according to an analysis of the authority payroll data by the Empire Center for Public Policy. 

Total pay at the authority surpassed $8 billion in 2024, a year-over-year increase of 2.6 percent, according to the Albany-based open-government group.

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