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Indian-American Becomes Highest-paid Public Employee in New York City
Patel is now the 29th highest paid public employee in the state of New York, as published by the watchdog group Empire Center, on their website.
An Indian American sewer worker named Bhavesh Patel has earned a total of $539,098 in wages last year after he put in 1,992 hours of overtime on top of his 2,086 regular hours.
The New York City employee worked close to 80 hours a week for all 52 weeks last year, thus working 16 hours every day, in and around the New York City sewers.