The city's
municipal workers earned an average of $ 69,124 last year — but the cost to taxpayers reached an eye - popping $ 106,743 because of skyrocketing fringe - benefit expenses, according to a report...
[74] In 2008, Corzine approved a law that increased the retirement age from 60 to 62, required that government
workers and teachers
earn $ 7,500 per year to qualify for a pension, eliminated Lincoln's Birthday as a state
worker holiday, allowed the state to offer incentives not to take health insurance and required
municipal employees work 20 hours per week to get health benefits.
The city budget passed last year included a 2.5 percent cost - of - living adjustment, and in January the de Blasio administration announced that
municipal workers and those working for contracted agencies will
earn $ 15 an hour by the end of 2018.