ICYMI: 77 LIRR Employees Made More Than $250K Last Year

In case you missed it, here's a story that appeared last week in Lindenhurst Patch:

LONG ISLAND, NY - As prices of Long Island Rail Road fares go up, so do the yearly paychecks of its employees.

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 website, SeeThroughNY.net.

The number of employees who made more than $300,000 also increased this year. Twenty LIRR employees topped a $300,000 paycheck in 2018 compared to 12 in 2017, data shows. In 2016, just eight employees made that amount and in 2015 only four employees did. In 2014, no employees made more than $300,000.

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