Governor Cuomo's budget passed with $175 billion in spending and usage, but some of the biggest subjects that were decided upon were the denying of weed, the cutting of $50,000 in Special Olympic funding, minimum wage and.....the Governor's salary.

His salary was raised from $179K to $200K.

2020: $225,000

2021: $250,000

The only person that makes close to that is the Governor of California at $202,000.

Even more surprising, the Lieutenant Governor, Kathy Hochl will make $220,000 which, as Michael Wooten from WGRZ points out, more than any current governor

 

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