MTA Chair Janno Lieber makes as much money as President Biden
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Lieber — who is independently wealthy from his previous work at Silverstein Properties overseeing reconstruction the World Trade Center site — also makes more than his predecessor Pat Foye. The MTA board in early 2022 signed off on his pay raise during a closed-door executive session, officials said. The chair’s base pay is $365,000 a year, but extra perks like vacation buybacks caused his total compensation to exceed that of the the reputed leader of the free world.
Government watchdogs didn’t take issue with Lieber making as much as POTUS. The MTA — along with most other government agencies across the U.S. — sometimes struggles to retain talent because private sector jobs come with higher salaries and less public scrutiny. Examples include former MTA managing director Veronique Hakim, who departed for the engineering firm HNTB, and former MTA Chair Tom Prendergast, who is now an executive at the construction giant AECOM.
“Ronan may be worth all of $70,000 a year,” the Daily News editorial board opined. “But if the MTA board henceforth will be much less secretive and much more open in its dealings, its currently none too large stock of public respect should increase.”MTA Chair Janno Lieber said he's considering the "maximal option" in the war on fare evasion: requiring commuters to show proof they paid the fare before leaving a station, as is done in subway systems around the world.
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