New District-By-District Breakdown of Businesses MTA Paid $35 Billion Over Last Decade

February 6, 2025
MTA Vendors Earned Nearly $35 Billion Over 10 Years in
Every Single Congressional District in NY, NJ, and CT


Many elected officials who are highly critical of the MTA and congestion pricing represent districts doing hundreds of millions – and even billions – of dollars of business with the MTA

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is a huge economic engine in the tri-state region, and paid $35 billion to local companies over the last ten years. An updated analysis and interactive webpage published by watchdog group Reinvent Albany shows the enormous amount of MTA business in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut in 2025 legislative districts. 

The analysis is being released in advance of today’s NYS Legislative Hearing on the transportation budget, where legislators will hear from the MTA and advocates about the importance of the proposed MTA 2025-2029 capital plan.

The new analysis reveals that many of the elected officials who are most critical of the MTA congestion pricing program and capital plan funding represent districts that do hundreds of millions – and even billions – of dollars of business with the MTA. 

Every single NY, NJ, and CT Congressional district, every NYS Senate district, and 149 of the 150 NYS Assembly districts had companies that received MTA payments from 2014-2023.

Over a ten-year period, local businesses in the tri-state regions earned substantial sums from MTA contracts totaling $34.5 billion for the region:

  • $30 billion was paid by MTA to companies in New York State 
  • $4 billion was paid by MTA to companies in New Jersey
  • $0.5 billion was paid by MTA to companies in Connecticut 

Here’s how much the MTA paid to businesses in the districts of some of the louder opponents of congestion pricing and new sources of transit funding:

The Governor and NYS Legislature are being asked to find $33 billion to help fund the proposed MTA 2025-2029 capital plan. The new analysis helps underline that MTA capital spending is not only an investment in better transit service which connects businesses to a huge regional labor market, it is also an enormous jobs and economic stimulus program. 

Reinvent Albany’s prior analysis found that tens of thousands of jobs were at risk without congestion pricing across New York State, and the Partnership for New York City importantly found that the MTA 2025-2029 capital plan would directly create 72,600 jobs for MTA vendors in NYS alone. 

Our latest interactive webpage includes 255 fact sheets that show top MTA vendors by: