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Fifteen Staten Island Ferry workers are now millionaires after pulling down seven-figure paydays last fiscal year — including one marine engineer who was infamously caught on camera sleeping on the job , putting passengers’ lives at risk, records show.
The windfalls are thanks to the city inking a long-stalled union contract in September 2023 that provided hefty raises for about 170 workers and giant lump sums for 13 years of back pay.
City taxpayers pour at least $108 million a year into the famous free ferry that runs across NY Harbor from St. George to lower Manhattan.
The biggest instant millionaire was Mark Tettonis, a 30-year chief marine engineer who lives in a $1.8 million Bay Ridge home. His base salary is $169,520 — but he pulled down $1,689,518 this past fiscal year.
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