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### PortAuthority gardenerRalph Berlangleri, at Bloomfield, N.J., home. He tends grass at NewarkAirport. 

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### $102,700 last year. He's not an executive or a lav.yer or an engineer. He's a Port Authority 

### gardener >Mlo cares for trees, shrubs and flowers at Newark 

### Airport.
"I have a nephew'-llho has a 

### college degree, and he doesn't makethat kind of money," said 

### Berlangieri, vklo has mrked for the bistate agency since 1975. "He told me hewantsto get a 

### job atthe Port Authority." Berlangieri's base pay last year was 

### $63,700. 

### He added 

### $39,000, 

### mostly through overtime.
"Ifthey're going to offer itto me, I'm not going to turn 

### it

### dovm," he said. Berlangieri's heftytake-home haul is hardly an aberration. A Daily 

### Ne'NS analysis

### of Port Authority payroll records also found 

### two cops

### v.ho made more than one-quarter million dollars each last year, an electriCian v.tlo pulled in $124,000 and a garage attendantv.hose total pay was $67,300.
The records also showthere were 19 gardeners on the books last year making an average of$76,000, including overtime and shift differentials.
The agency has morethan 6,200 full-time employees, vhlo averaged $71,900 each in base pay lastyear. Records showthat

### Wth all otherforms of compensation added, such as overtime and differentials, the average annual payjumped to $90,200 per employee.
Some other annual average earnings by position, including overtime and other pay: Police-$116,700
Electricians
- $96,000

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### DailyNem Plumbers- $82,900 Garage attendants- $62,600
Toll collectors- $54,300
Port Authority Executive Director Anthony Shorris adnitted that a gardener making $102,700 "sounds crazy" and said he has begun a reviewof compensation levels at the authority.
"What really concerns me is the issue of overtime," said Shorris, 'Nho was 

### appointed to the top job in January.
last year, records show, the PA paid out $72.6 million in overtime.
Shorris said he wants to be sure that overtime is being effectively managed by supervisors and that "individuals aren't gaming the system to drive up 

### pensions." Top-paid individuals included police Sgt. John Rienzie ($270,200); Officer Frank Gato ($255,900); electrician John Manbrettl ($124,000); plumber John Santoro ($119,000); toll collector Clarence Tanksley ($86,700) and garage attendant Reginald Bowers ($67,300).
The records showthat Rienzie's base salary was $100,800, increased by $130,500 in overtime and $38,900 in other earnings, including differentials. Gate's base salary was only $80,500, according to the records.
Port Authority records also showtwo "salad makers" on the payroll; they earned more than $40,000 each. A PA spokesman said thejob Utle does not mean these 

### !'NO only make salads, but are general cafeteria workers.
In total, the Port Authority payroll topped $560 million last year, v.ith more than 35% ofall full-time employees topping the $100,000 mark.
The agency is much more generous than local and state government employers. According to the federal Bureau of laborStatistics, the average full-time governmentW>rker in the NewYork area made 

### $56,000 in base pay last year. "In general, Ithink this is because they are subject to less accountability and oversight," said 

### E.J. McMahon, a fiscal policy analyst atthe Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank. Among the best-compensated group at the bistate agency are the more than 1,600 cops who make up the Port Authority Police Department.
Rienzie was the highest-paid employee in the entire authority last year, even topping then-Executive Director Kenneth Ringler, vffio made $268,400. Rienzie retired Jan. 27. And Rienzie, who did not respond to an interview request, 

### was farfrom the only cop v.ho pulled in more than 

### $200,000 last year- a total of50 surpassed that milestone. \/Vhile most of those earning top dollar have been on thejobfor at least a decade, more than 

### 200 officers hired in 

### 2002 made more than 

### $100,000 last year, including overtime. Gus Danese, president ofthe Port Authority Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, defended the compensation levels.
"We're being underpaid," Danese said. 

### "H should be more."
Danese also claimed that PA management v.ould rather pay the overtime, v...tlich came in at $43 million last year for police alone, than hire additional officers. Port Authority generosity doesn't stop >Mth paychecks. Employees are part of**http:/Jw...w.r.n}Uail~em.comlnews/1**

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### NewYork State pension system, IMlich counts overtime when determining pensions. According to pension records obtained by The News detailing the top 100 earners in the system, 42 come from the Port Authority. Those 42 retirees each receive betwo:en $126,200 and $183,500 annually in pension checks.
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### Last year, that figure was $59.4million.
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