Security guards at city migrant shelters are being paid upwards of $117 an hour — more than four times the prevailing wage — under rushed, no-bid contracts being doled out by Mayor Eric Adams’ administration to deal with the crisis, a new audit shows.
The deals, inked under the city’s emergency contracting system, have allowed various for-profit companies to charge “exorbitant rates” for migrant shelter staffing with very little oversight and vetting – leading to taxpayers being fleeced out of millions of dollars, according to the report.