School custodians in NYC clear $100K

ALBANY — The Empire Center, a fiscally conser­vative think tank, reports that New York City’s pub­lic school custodians on average were paid more than $109,000 in the 2014 fiscal year, making them the highest paid group of municipal employees last year. The new city payroll data posted on the cen­ter’s website shows that 634 of the 799 custodians received more than $100,000 in pay.

They are among 509,000 city workers who are in the database.