Previously, under former town Supervisor Sean Walter's administration, the combined
salaries and benefits of four employees in the supervisor's office — including the supervisor, deputy supervisor,
legislative secretary Carol Sclafani, and Lawrence Levy, the chief of
staff under Walter's office listed as an executive assistant — cost a total of $ 493,170.46, according to Jens - Smith's office.
Rapfogel's
salary — which tops the $ 179,000 earned by Cuomo — remained unchanged even as she moved from the speaker's office to Silver's personal
legislative staff and saw her responsibilities diminished.