2010 New York Code
EXC - Executive
Article 7 - (161 - 170-B*2) MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
169 - Salaries of certain state officers.

§ 169. Salaries  of  certain  state  officers.  1. Salaries of certain
  state officers holding the positions indicated hereinbelow shall  be  as
  set forth in subdivision two of this section:
    (a)  commissioner of correctional services, commissioner of education,
  commissioner of health, commissioner of mental health,  commissioner  of
  mental  retardation  and  developmental  disabilities,  commissioner  of
  children and family services, commissioner of temporary  and  disability
  assistance, chancellor of the state university of New York, commissioner
  of   transportation,   commissioner   of   environmental   conservation,
  superintendent of state police, commissioner  of  general  services  and
  commissioner   of  the  division  of  homeland  security  and  emergency
  services;
    (b) commissioner of labor,  chairman  of  public  service  commission,
  commissioner   of   taxation   and  finance,  superintendent  of  banks,
  commissioner of criminal justice services, superintendent of  insurance,
  and commissioner of parks, recreation and historic preservation;
    (c)   commissioner   of   agriculture  and  markets,  commissioner  of
  alcoholism and substance abuse services, adjutant general,  commissioner
  and  president  of  state  civil  service  commission,  commissioner  of
  economic development, chair  of  the  energy  research  and  development
  authority,   president   of   higher   education  services  corporation,
  commissioner of motor vehicles, member-chair of board of  parole,  chair
  of  public  employment relations board, secretary of state, chair of the
  state  racing  and  wagering  board,  commissioner  of  alcoholism   and
  substance  abuse  services,  executive  director  of the housing finance
  agency,  commissioner  of  housing  and  community  renewal,   executive
  director  of  state  insurance  fund, commissioner-chair of state liquor
  authority, chair of the workers' compensation board;
    (d) director of office for the aging, commissioner  of  human  rights,
  commissioners  of  the  department  of public service, chairman of state
  commission on quality of care for the  mentally  disabled,  chairman  of
  commission  on  alcoholism and substance abuse prevention and education,
  executive director of the council on the arts and executive director  of
  the board of social welfare;
    (e)  chairman  of  state  athletic  commission, chairman and executive
  director of consumer protection board, director of the office of  victim
  services,  chairman  of  human  rights  appeal  board,  chairman  of the
  industrial board  of  appeals,  chairman  of  the  state  commission  of
  correction,  members of the board of parole, members of the state racing
  and wagering board, member-chairman  of  unemployment  insurance  appeal
  board,  director of veterans' affairs, and vice-chairman of the workers'
  compensation board;
    (f) executive director of adirondack park agency, commissioners of the
  state  liquor  authority,  commissioners  of  the  state  civil  service
  commission,  members  of  state  commission  of  correction,  members of
  unemployment  insurance  appeal  board,  and  members  of  the  workers'
  compensation board.
    2.  (a)  Effective  January  first,  nineteen hundred ninety-nine, the
  annual salaries of the  officers  holding  the  positions  indicated  in
  subdivision  one  of this section shall be as follows: for the positions
  listed in paragraph  (a),  $136,000;  in  paragraph  (b),  $127,000;  in
  paragraph  (c),  $120,800; in paragraph (d), $109,800; in paragraph (e),
  $101,600; and in paragraph (f), $90,800.
    (b) Notwithstanding any of the foregoing provisions of this section to
  the contrary, an incumbent in a position (i) listed  in  former  section
  one  hundred  sixty-nine of the executive law in effect on the day prior
  to the effective date of  this  subdivision,  or  (ii)  listed  in  this
  section, or (iii) covered by a provision of law other than such section,

shall  not  receive  compensation  in  an  amount  less than such person
  received on the effective date of this section.
    3.  Notwithstanding  any  other provision of this section or any other
  provision of law, the boards of trustees of the state university of  New
  York  and  the  city  university  of  New  York shall each establish and
  implement salary plans for the chancellors, presidents and senior staffs
  of such state and city universities, respectively. The board of  regents
  shall  establish  and implement a separate salary plan for the president
  of  the  university  of  the  state  of  New  York,  setting  forth  the
  compensation  to  be received by the president for performing the duties
  of that office assigned by the rules of the regents  or  statute,  which
  shall  be  in  addition  to  the  compensation  received  by such person
  pursuant to the provisions of subdivisions one and two of this  section.
  Such  salary  plans  shall  be  developed  after  consultation  with the
  governor's office of employee relations and the division of the  budget.
  Any  increase  in  compensation  for  the  positions  set  forth in this
  subdivision, not otherwise  funded  from  any  appropriation,  shall  be
  funded   from   reallocations   of   funds   within  the  appropriations
  specifically identified by the  aforementioned  boards.  Each  board  of
  trustees  and  the  board  of  regents shall file a proposed salary plan
  report with the chairs of the senate finance committee and the  assembly
  ways  and  means committee and the director of the budget at least sixty
  days prior to the effective date of such salary plan. Each  salary  plan
  report  shall  set  forth  the  salary  schedule,  the  dollar  value of
  additional public compensation and other employment benefits  that  such
  positions   would  receive,  the  specific  sources  of  funding  to  be
  reallocated for salary increases, the amount of increase to be  provided
  to each position, the comparison salary data on which the plan is based,
  and  such  other  information as the boards of trustees and the board of
  regents deem appropriate.