> On average, the city’s 44,526 employees received pay and perks costing taxpayers $131,335 apiece. Four out of ten – 18,749 city workers – received a compensat

> On average, the city’s 44,526 employees received pay and perks costing taxpayers $131,335 apiece. Four out of ten – 18,749 city workers – received a compensation package exceeding $150,000 per year. The style of summarizing this data is not good. Taking some arbitrary high-bar and then averaging it, is twisting the data to their purpose. There clearly are high salaries in there, but saying X truck-drivers earned an average of Y, when you exclude all of the low-paid ones is just misrepresentation of the data.