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LONG ISLAND, NY — A total of 43 LIRR employees earned more than $250,000 in 2020, according to payroll data released by the Empire Center for Public Policy. Of those, 19 workers topped $300,000 ...
LIRR President Patrick A. Nowakowski was No. 7 on the 2017 list, with a pay rate of $137 per hour, a $1 per hour raise from 2016. All six employees ahead of him received a pay rate of $48 or $50 ...
The average pay for an LIRR employee was $106,103 in 2014, a 27 percent increase over 2013. The pay increase was partly due to $431 million in retroactive pay paid by the authority in 2014 ...
The LIRR logo combines the circular MTA logo with the text Long Island Rail Road, and appears on the sides of trains. The LIRR is one of two commuter rail systems owned by the MTA, the other being the Metro-North Railroad in the northern suburbs of the New York area. Established in 1834 (the first section between the Brooklyn waterfront and ...
A 1980 transit strike in New York City halted service on the New York City Transit Authority (a subsidiary of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority) for the first time since 1966. Around 33,000 members of Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100 walked off their jobs on April 1, 1980, in a strike with the goal of increasing the wage for ...
The LIRR acquired the ferry company in March 1892 and began operating the boats itself. In 1890, the Main Line was double tracked to Hicksville. The LIRR tried a Boston route again in 1891, this time from Oyster Bay at the end of the recently extended Oyster Bay Branch to Wilson Point, Norwalk, Connecticut on the Housatonic Railroad.
The number of LIRR employees who made more than $250,000 increased by nearly 50 percent from 2017 to 2018, according to payroll data found on the Empire Center for Public Policy's transparency ...
The average pay for an LIRR employee was $106,103 in 2014, a 27 percent increase over 2013. The large pay increase in 2014 was partly due to $431 million paid out for retroactive raises dating ...