Meet the City’s Half-Million-Dollar Man: New York’s Highest-Paid Employee (house, transfer)
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NYCHA General Manager Vito Mustaciuolo cashed in years of unused vacation to boost his paycheck to $515,000 — more than the mayor and governor combined. Meanwhile, pandemic shutdowns didn’t stop his work crews’ overtime bills from rising.
The executive who manages the city’s troubled Housing Authority made it to the top of the civil servant heap last year with a paycheck of $515,000 — more than any other municipal employee, newly released data show.
Vito Mustaciuolo, general manager and chief operating officer of NYCHA, collected more pay in fiscal 2021 than the mayor and governor’s combined salaries under an unusual arrangement that allowed him to cash in far more vacation days than is usually allowed.
Mayor bill de Blasio asked Mustaciuolo to serve as general manager of NYCHA in 2018, switching from his position as a top official with the Department of Housing Preservation and Development. At the time, the department only allowed employees to cash in 261 unused vacation days, and NYCHA would only accept a transfer of 54 days.
But Mustaciuolo said he would take the NYCHA job only if he could get a payout for every unused vacation day he’d accrued over 39 years on the city payroll. That came to 662 days.
Don't have to use vacation because almost every day is a vacation for 3/4 of city workers. City workers (the useless ones) and welfare recipients bleed this city dry.
Regardless if you are a ditch digger handling a pick or a house cleaner
handling a feather duster a paycheck is a paycheck is a paycheck and
you can not be denied payment.
Regardless if you are a ditch digger handling a pick or a house cleaner
handling a feather duster a paycheck is a paycheck is a paycheck and
you can not be denied payment.
God Bless him.
What does this even mean? Most people don't have an issue with this guy making $500K. The issue is what did/do taxpayers get for that money?
It seems many city workers have a very distorted view of reality. They believe (and are right because the city has no standards) that their paycheck is simply a reflection of showing up and breathing (most of the time).
Maybe he was the hardest worker NYCHA has ever seen but on the whole a large chunk of the city workforce is no different then another welfare class in NYCs budget.
$515,000 and NYCHA is one of the worst run agencies around. Garbage all over the grounds. Disgusting.
NYCHA is a huge money pit. Both residents and employees are a burden on NYC.
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