How much do they pay?
I'd like to know this too because garbage collectors don't make shyt here in Louisiana.
One reason applicants may be lining up to become a sanitation worker is the pay. The starting salary is low, $33,746, but when you factor in overtime, it averages $47,371 in the first year. And after 5½ years, the salary jumps to an average of $88,616 dollars. That’s not bad, considering the average annual pay for New York City transit workers is $77,991, New York City teachers is $68,151 dollars and New York City Parks Department employees is $50,042.
According to Kathryn Garcia, the commissioner of New York City’s Department of Sanitation, there is ample opportunity for overtime pay, since sanitation workers also operate the city’s 2,300 snowplows. “When we have a big snowfall, we move into 12-hour shifts, and so they earn a lot of overtime,” she said. “Last winter was extraordinarily harsh, and people who might on average have made, say, $75,000 a year were averaging more like $95,000.”
And there are other perks too, such as 10 percent extra pay for night shifts, double pay for Sundays, 25 vacation days after six years of service and an unlimited number of sick days. Sanitation Department workers used an average of 14.4 sick days in 2014 — more than New York City police officers, who also have unlimited sick days but who used an average of only 7.7 days of sick leave in 2014.
“Like any strong union, they do have very good benefits,” said Garcia. “They have very good pension benefits. They have very good health care plan. But that’s also true across most other city employees.”
and I wasn't mad at him either. He knew that in a few years he'd be close to six figures easy. I'd always said that Sanitation is the one job in NY that I would have stayed put for, but now in this new coronavirus era, I'm like
on that one


Yes I have seen two. One was a quite cute white woman. The other was a bulldagger.I’ve never seen a woman with that job. I was shocked the first time I saw a female taxi driver in Manhattan. And one plumber I used had a butch female assistant, but I’ve never seen a female trash person.
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Good pay, pension, benefits in the city but it’s tough labor with possible future health repercussions.This is from an article five years ago, so factor that in when talking about salaries.
I knew a couple niiggas who was making six figures working for Sanitation. Gig was dumb easy. They was usually back in the shop chilling by noon at the latest after getting the trash. I mentioned on here how this one cat at my old job, was working in the mailroom but when his number came up for Sanitation, threw a party at this club in Brooklyn. Son was handing out flyers and everythingand I wasn't mad at him either. He knew that in a few years he'd be close to six figures easy. I'd always said that Sanitation is the one job in NY that I would have stayed put for, but now in this new coronavirus era, I'm like
on that one
That pension keeps some of the OGs eating well, too...
https://nypost.com/2018/02/20/retired-sanitation-worker-rakes-in-285k-a-year-from-pension/
I know a girl who earned a master's degree in mathematics and as soon as she finished, even though she could get many high paying jobs, she became a garbace collector for like a year because that had been her 'dream' so to speak as a child. I thought that was hella sexy.