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Report: Some MTA workers made nearly $200G last year

Quick ReadOvertime, retirement payouts and other compensation helped boost the pay of many of the MTA's highly compensated employees.

MTA workers work on LIRR equipment at the

Photo credit: Alejandra Villa | MTA workers work on LIRR equipment at the Hillside facility. (March 11, 2010)

Overtime, retirement payouts and other compensation helped boost the pay of some MTA dispatchers, engineers and train car mechanics to nearly $200,000 last year, and in a few cases even more, according to an Albany-based nonprofit research center.

And more than one in four of the Long Island Rail Road's 7,046 employees earned more than $100,000 last year, according to data published by the...

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