On the state's most recent payroll, there were 78,435 people, in addition to about 3,000 who work for authorities that run the New Jersey Turnpike, other highways and bridges, according to the state's Office of Management and Budget.
A Times analysis of the 25 M.T.A. agency presidents who have left over the past two decades found that at least 18 of them became consultants or went to work for authority contractors, including many who have worked on expansion projects.
"People forget now that every architect in the post-war period worked for local authorities or schools or hospitals.
Jones initially worked for local authorities too, but moved to the voluntary sector early in her career to work on drugs rehabilitation, women's homelessness and domestic violence.
No. I'd always worked for local authorities either in children's homes or local community service departments, but I came off a permanent local authority job to work on a three-year contract running Polmont's youth centre.
According to that verdict, the suspected attacker grew up with six siblings in Strasbourg, worked for local authorities after leaving school and had been unemployed since 2011.
Lawyers at another firm that has worked for the authority, St. John & Wayne, gave $20,000, while lawyers at a third firm with authority contracts, Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti, gave roughly $20,000.
The firm, Sussman Sollis Ebin Tweedy & Wood, had never worked for the authority before.
ALLAN ROSEN, who worked for the authority for many years, called my attention to a little-discussed aspect of changes that led to the closing or altering of dozens of bus routes.
Ms. Burgess-Levy is herself married to a former congressman, David A. Levy, though she said she had extensive utility experience, having worked for the authority or its predecessor for nearly 20 years.
David White, who had worked for the authority for more than 20 years, was found dead in Butley Woods, near Woodbridge on 4 April.
