Gov. Cuomo sent Port Authority honcho Chris Ward packing, but he didn’t let him go away empty-handed, The Post has learned.

The former executive director of the PA — now listed officially as a “senior adviser” — is walking away with a cool $54,000, far in excess of the average income for an entire New York City household for a whole year.

Ward declined to comment, as did the PA.

But agency records show that Ward, who earned $304,000 as the PA’s boss, was given a severance package that included $38,770.20 in pay for November and December, along with $15,231.15 as a cash equivalent for 16 unused vacation days. He’ll be totally off the payroll come January.

Ward was replaced on Nov. 1 by Cuomo aide Patrick Foye.

Ward’s severance is more than the city’s average household income of $48,743, according to the most recent Census figures.

News of Ward’s farewell present comes as the PA defends last summer’s toll hikes amid cries of poverty from the agency that runs the World Trade Center and the region’s ports, airports and Hudson crossings.

Robert Sinclair, a spokesman for AAA New York, said Ward deserved “a decent level of compensation,” but the severance pay is excessive.

“It’s just another example of the Port Authority’s profligate use of taxpayer and toll-payer money,” Sinclair said. “On top of what was already a very handsome salary, this is just unfair and unreasonable.”