They would form the 67th largest city in the nation, just ahead of Newark, and fill six Yankee Stadiums.
If they pooled their annual paychecks, they’d have $13.7 billion — equal to the gross domestic product of Jamaica and a little more than Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth ($13.5 billion).
And if they didn’t show up, New York would shut down.
They are the 283,889 men and women who form our city’s work force. Their 2010 earnings, compiled last month by city budgeters, reveal:
â– Education pays. Five of the top 10 earners are CUNY presidents, each taking home more than $200,000.
â– The median salary is a respectable $60,000 a year.
â– Six figures is not that rare — 12,364 employees earned $100,000 or more last year, and the NYPD had the most of any department, with 3,381 cops making that much. The Mayor’s Office had the most at $200,000 or more — 13 — followed by police, fire and NYC Transit Authority workers (four each).
â– Geek is chic. Budget and data experts are well compensated.
The numbers, which the Department of Citywide Administrative Services must publish each April, do not include the Department of Education or the city’s hospital workers. Both budgets are partly under state control and are excluded.
brad.hamilton@nypost.com