Regulates the commercial waste (trade waste) hauling industry and the city's public wholesale food markets to keep organized crime out and protect businesses from price-gouging and corruption. From the 1950s through the 1990s, the Gambino and Genovese crime families controlled NYC's private garbage hauling, running a cartel that charged businesses extortionate prices. BIC exists because the city had to literally create an agency to break the mob's grip on trash collection and food markets.
Spending
$6.0M
513 transactions →
Payroll
$4.5M
1,302 pay records →
Budget (Adopted)
$8.7M
$5.5M spent
Avg Salary
$92.6K
across 1,302 records
Did You Know
BIC's predecessor, the Trade Waste Commission, was created in 1996 after a 114-count indictment revealed that mob-controlled garbage haulers had divided up the entire city into cartel territories. Before that, switching your trash hauler could literally get you threatened.
| PERSONAL SERVICES | $4.5M |
| 100 CHURCH FEE OWNER LLC | $935.6K |
| NYC BUSINESS INTEGRITY COMMISSION | $241.7K |
| WEST PUBLISHING CORPORATION | $62.6K |
| N/A (PRIVACY/SECURITY) | $26.3K |
| COMMUNITY ASSOCIATE | 285 staff | $48.5K avg |
| COMMUNITY COORDINATOR | 252 staff | $77.7K avg |
| EXECUTIVE AGENCY COUNSEL | 167 staff | $149.4K avg |
| MARKET AGENT | 128 staff |
| $66.9K avg |
| ASSOCIATE FRAUD INVESTIGATOR (NOT PYRL 069,071) ABC 148 | 93 staff | $86.6K avg |
Headcount
Around 70-80 employees -- a small agency with an outsized anti-corruption mandate
Who It Serves
NYC businesses that pay for private waste removal, wholesale food market vendors and buyers, and the public interest in keeping organized crime out of essential industries
Category
Government Operations