With a $225,000 salary, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is the country’s highest paid governor. The next highest paid is California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who made $202,000 last year.
In fact, Cuomo was scheduled to make $250,000 in 2021 — with another $25,000 pay increase — completing a three-year $71,000 pay hike (40-percent). However, he opted not to take the extra $25,000. (In 2018, an appointed state panel gave the legislature and governor hefty pay hikes.) READ MORE