Metro

MTA cutting over 1,000 jobs

The MTA is cutting the fat.

Severe budget shortfalls will bring about 1,050 layoffs at the agency this year, with heads rolling in either administration or station agent positions.

Officials expect to save $50 million and will formally announce the plan tomorrow.

About 600 managers from all of the agency’s divisions — including New York City Transit — will receive pink slips in the next several days, sources said. Those workers are not unionized.

And NYCT officials also plan to ditch hundreds of station agents, with another 450 being eliminated. Those workers mostly belong to the 35,000-member Transport Workers Union.

“Jay Walder envisions a system devoid of workers, and riders are going to pay a heavy price for this philosophy in the case of an emergency,” said John Samuelsen, president of the TWU.

He added that he wasn’t alerted to the layoffs by MTA brass.

Bean-counters from consulting firm Accenture have been analyzing MTA’s headcount for weeks as the agency struggles with a massive budget hole caused by lower-than-expected tax revenues and cuts in state aid.

The MTA employs about 70,000 people.