Other additional compensation is comprised of retroactive payments, one‐time payments (., those made annually in a lump sum, such as grievance awards, attendance incentives, uniform allowances and lump sum merit increases), and miscellaneous payments such as short term disability payments. The health related benefit costs per employee (excluding retirees) were $23,380 (for detail see Table 15). Pension, OPEB, and other benefits combined to approximately $14,264 (active employee estimate, assuming same costs per active vs. per retired). In the aggregate, the estimated, average, total cost of compensation and benefits for a Port Authority employee was $143,060 (Table 7). In total, approximately 70% of base salary is comprised of “add‐on” compensation and benefits (active employees only). .
