The Post-Star has editorialized against New York legislators seeking a pay raise. (I won't link to it due to their pay wall).
NYS lawmakers are paid a bare minimum of $79,500 for their part-time jobs; committee chairmen and those in leadership positions earn quite a bit more. Incidentally, 'part-time' is the description they themselves use so as to weasel out of transparency laws that might reveal their corruption and conflicts of interest.
NYS lawmakers are paid a bare minimum of $79,500 for their part-time jobs; committee chairmen and those in leadership positions earn quite a bit more. Incidentally, 'part-time' is the description they themselves use so as to weasel out of transparency laws that might reveal their corruption and conflicts of interest.
In addition, they are given a $171 per diem for every day
the legislature’s in session.
The legislature opposes a raise in the minimum wage. Gov. Cuomo pretends to be in favor of the minimum wage but won't push for it, for fearer of alienating his corporate backers.
A
minimum wage earner would have to work SIXTY hours a week every week for THREE AND A HALF YEARS
to earn what the poorest of these bozos in Albany get for five months of *part-time* 'work.'
This calculation does not count their per diem. In order to earn $171, a minimum wage worker would have to clock in 23.5 hours.
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