Overtime pay gave nearly two hundred city employees a salary bonanza in the last fiscal year.
Most of these workers — spanning a range of city agencies — were able to double their earnings with the extra hours, according to the latest data.
All told, the city shelled out $1.7 billion just in overtime pay to 167,851 workers — and 195 actually doubled their salary, according to the numbers compiled by the Empire Center.
Most of those — 90 — were in the Department of Transportation, 35 at the Department of Correction and 26 in the FDNY.
Of the top five overtime earners — including many who have have been pulling down big bucks for years — four work for DOT and one for the FDNY.
DOT employee David Russell, a highway repair supervisor, scored the most overtime — $177,630. That raised his total pay to $274,352 for fiscal year 2015, which ended June 30.
Right behind him was FDNY marine engineer Frederick Domini, who earned $153,787 in OT and $262,926 in total pay.
DOT bricklayer Edward Alfano laid down $146,118 in OT, for $239,462 total pay,
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I am curious on how some firemen are able to justify overtime work. It reminds me of the stories I would hear about some cops would count changing in their civilian clothes in the locker room as OT.
"I am curious on how some firemen are able to justify overtime work." I'm going to go out on a limb here and say it's when your shift is over but you're still fighting a fire? Or maybe when your shift is over but the next crew didn't arrive in time?
You think I didn't consider that if a fire happened past one's shift that it would count?
I was just hypothesizing. Because not all firemen and has proven on this site other city workers, are honest.
Although I should have made that distinction in my first comment, all apologies.
The full article also mentions that some of these salaries include money from lawsuits, and it's not just straight overtime.
I WONDER HOW MUCH MELISSA-MARK VIVERITO MADE LAST YEAR? PROBABLY ENOUGH TO RETIRE TO PUERTO RICO AND RUN FOR GOVERNOR...LOL
The dept of corrections, I don't understand....every other city agency I can understand because most of it is due to an overcrowded city which needs to start being controlled somehow. More illegal conversion and housing lead to more fires, more people lead to more overcrowded trains and shifts being stretched beyond limit, more people equals more garbage pickup....our resources and our government workers are being stretched and its only going to get worst.
Just speculating, but DOC overtime could be because of all the inmate issues that have been going on at Rikers. I know that they have been reorganizing over DOC over the past year, so the overtime could be connected to that.
Disband the public unions.
You shouldn't have a government job AND a union job.
IMHO: any working man (or woman) with a family to feed and bills to pay welcomes overtime if it is available to them. When I was younger (I'm now 67) I asked for and worked as much overtime as was given me, and would have worked more if it was offered to me....
As long as these people were doing actual WORK, I have no problem with them earning as much as they can....
That FD marine engineer worked nearly 2000 hours of OT, which is about an extra 40 hours per week. He's got Coast Guard machine qualifications that the Marine division needs but few other staff possess so the FD has little choice to hire him to man the boats. Yeah, he's got the money, but I if he has a family at home, I still feel for him.
Can't speak for the other OT cowboys.
There are many reasons why someone gets overtime such as someone is out sick or on vacation. The agency would rather pay overtime than the expense of hiring another worker. The problem with city and state workers is that their pension is calculated in how much they made so they fill up at the trough right before they retire and get the big pension. Bloomberg tried to change this but failed.The Federal workers overtime is not calculated in.
That pension-padding rule is outdated. Pensions are now based on an average of a worker's best 3 years of salary, not including any salary over 5% of the previous year.
I think the speaker makes almost as much a Mayor DiBlasio. Shameful but no one is doing anything about it...
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