Westchester leads state in highest paid county, police workers

[hrmjustin]

Joseph Spector

About 1,800 local government employees earned more than Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the fiscal year that ended in March, and Westchester County had the highest paid county workers and police, a report today said.

Westchester County, one of the most expensive places to live in the country, had an average pay of $76,652 for county workers and $184,865 for county police, a report from the Empire Center for State Policy said. The county police figure is high in part because the department is relatively small—about 270 employees—compared to the nearly 2,200 in the Nassau County Sheriff’s Department.

The highest-paid local government employee was Charles E. Ewald, a jail warden who was paid $414,527 by Suffolk County. Nine local government employees were paid more than $300,000.

http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2014/07/24/westchester-leads-state-in-highest-paid-county-police-workers/

[BeyondGeography]

1. Hope they enjoy it while it lasts

$400+K for the Hamptons jailer...ffs.

[hrmjustin]

2. $400,000 is just way too much.