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The Long Island Power Authority has had trouble getting electricity to flow, but the agency generates plenty of dollars for its employees' pockets.
Nearly half of LIPA's 101 employees were paid more than $100,000 during the state's 2012 fiscal year, which ended in March, according to a Newsday review of state pension records. Those 49 employees took home an average $147,800.
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