How much are NYS workers paid?

ALBANY, NY - You can now check to see just how much New York state workers made in 2009.

The Empire Center has posted last year's base salaries and total pay for all state workers on its website SeeThroughNY.net.

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Nine hundred state employees made more than Gov. David Paterson's $179,000 salary in 2009. The highest paid worker was Dr. Stephen Onesti, chairman of the neurosurgery department at the SUNY-run Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. He earned $958,047 last year, while Alain Kaloyeros, vice president and chief administrative officer of the nanoscience program at the University at Albany, earned $734,353.

In this time of economic strife the number of six-figure salaries on the public rolls in 2009 actually grew to 23,685 workers, up 16 percent from 2008.

In many cases overtime and other perks were more than the base salary. Mercy Mathew, a nurse at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Westchester County, earned $171,814 on top of a base salary of $55,716.

Check out the salaries here.