ALBANY -- What do a suspended Schenectady police officer, Albany County's health commissioner and several psychiatrists in Saratoga County have in common?
They are all among the highest-paid municipal employees in the Capital Region, according to payroll data expected to be released today.
The data, compiled by the Manhattan Institute's Empire Center for New York State Policy, revealed the names and salaries of more than 179,000 municipal workers across the state in village, town, city and county governments for 2008 to 2009.
And the information made one thing abundantly clear: It can pay to work for Saratoga County or the city of Schenectady Police Department.
Of the top 20 municipal earners in the four-county immediate Capital Region, 10 worked for the city of Schenectady, six for the county of Saratoga, joined by two Troy employees and one from both Rensselaer and Albany counties.
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The fourth top earner was Schenectady police Officer Dwayne Johnson, who made $169,461 in 2008-09, topping the Electric City and other local cities. Johnson remains on paid leave after being suspended from duty after being accused of spending early-morning hours at an apartment rather than on patrol. He was later accused of working privately at the same time he was drawing pay for a police shift.
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