Here's a link with last year's pay scale.
2010 - 2012 ATC Payscale - Air Traffic Control - ATC - Aviation
The New York Tracon is a level 12 facility, so newly checked out CPC's get $103,669 base pay. Notice that locality pay is excluded. The locality pay here is currently 28.72%. Most of us that have been here a while are at the federal salary cap (your combined base salary+ locality pay can't exceed $179,700). However you can exceed the cap with overtime, and premium pay (10% night differential, 25% Sunday pay, 10% cic pay, 10% ojti pay, double pay for holidays, etc). Since we're so short, we're working mandatory 6 days a week, so overtime is at an all time high. There's quite a few of us veteran cpc controllers here grossing around $240,000 to $250,000 a year in total combined pay, but even the more junior guys that are freshly checked out are over $150,000 when you add all the extras.
As for opening the job to foreigners...I would not have a problem with it, since we really could use the help, but that's not my call to make.
