longshoremen in New Jersey and at other ports from Maine to Texas are in line for significant pay raises after their Union went on strike just a couple of weeks ago top pay for Dock Workers will hit 45 bucks an hour or about 93,000 a year before overtime but even with that big pay Boost Rank and file union members will still make only a fraction of what union leadership is paid Federal filings from the union and which were first reported by New Jersey monitor show the international longshoreman's Association president Harold Daggett breaks in nearly $1 million a year in his salary that's coupled with lavish benefits like limo service and Yankees tickets beyond that the Union's two dozen vice presidents each make hundreds of thousands of dollars per year multiple members of the Daggett family hold highly paid roles within the union critics have warned that the family has amassed a dangerous amount of power over a Union that's critical to the nation's supply chain but an attorney for the union defended the pay noting the Ila's net assets they soared under Daggett's leadership while his pay barely changed they also argued Daggett is committed to fighting to protect the jobs and livelihood of Dock workers