The NYPD shelled out almost $1.1 billion on additional time final fiscal yr – essentially the most of any metropolis company, however nonetheless almost 14% lower than the prior 12 months, The Submit has discovered.
Cops and non-uniformed NYPD staffers pocketed a mixed $1,087,616,025 in OT for the fiscal yr ending June 30 – together with a jaw-dropping 55 captains, lieutenants, detectives and different staffers who every raked in additional than $100,000 in OT past their precise salaries, an evaluation of newly launched payroll data.
Main the best way was now-retired Lt. John Tancredi, who racked up 1,256 further hours – price $163,681 – bringing his whole pay to $345,249.
Lt. Christopher Cheng, a 27-year veteran, was second with $147,758 in paid OT — that’s 1,122 further hours labored — bringing his whole earnings to $340,249 with base pay and fringe advantages.
Cheng, who works in Midtown’s Manhattan South precinct the place cops routinely clock in further hours monitoring protests, declined to remark via his union reps. Tancredi couldn’t be reached.
NYPD additional time spending – which accounted for 18% of the company’s $6 billion payroll – wound up a whopping 59% over the $601.9 million budgeted for fiscal 2025.
Nonetheless, general additional time dropped 13.7% from $1,259,696,367 the earlier fiscal yr after Mayor Eric Adams and newly appointed NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch laid out new guidelines in December geared toward cracking down on sky-high OT.
The transfer got here as investigators probed allegations that disgraced ex-Chief of Division Jeffrey Maddrey coerced a feminine subordinate to have workplace intercourse with him in trade for additional time.
Ex-Lt. Quathisha Epps, a 19-year-vet who retired in January a month after The Submit uncovered the scandal, was the division’s highest paid worker in fiscal 2024 — pulling in $403,515, together with $204,453.48 in additional time pay.
The NYPD demanded Epps return $231,890.75 in paid additional time, however Epps known as the request retaliation for her blowing the whistle on Maddrey, as soon as the division’s No. 2 cop, The Submit reported in Might.
The newly launched payroll knowledge elevate new questions on Epps.
Epps reimbursed the NYPD 1,425 hours of additional time price $176,662, however she acquired one other $253,996 for was known as “different pay” in fiscal 2025 — past the $85,148 she earned in base pay for working July via December, in response to payroll knowledge.
Epps’ lawyer Eric Sanders declined to touch upon the $253,996 cost however advised The Submit the additional time was taken from the ex-cop with out her blessing — and that she’ll search a courtroom order to get it again.
“She didn’t return something,” he mentioned. “They stole it from her. There’s no authorized authority to do what they did.”
“The savior stole it,” quipped the lawyer, talking of Tisch.
All 55 cops hauling in over $100,000 in OT have both since retired or have labored the minimal 20 years wanted to be eligible to retire and accumulate pension advantages, data present.
Many cops work large quantities of additional time of their final years on the power earlier than retiring as a result of their lifetime pensions are based mostly on the typical wage (with OT) of their final three years.
Christopher Hermann, a former NYPD crime-analyst supervisor who’s now an assistant professor at Manhattan’s John Jay School of Prison Justice, mentioned an enormous motive for the balloon OT funds is just a scarcity of cops.
“With report numbers of retirements every month/yr, the general variety of NYPD cops is comparatively low, in comparison with different years,” he mentioned.
There have been 33,614 NYPD cops working for the NYPD final fiscal yr – much like staffing ranges the earlier two fiscal years, data present. However that’s 7.8% beneath the 36,461 common in fiscal 2019 — earlier than the pandemic — when company staffers made a mixed $727.9 million in OT working 3.2 million much less additional time hours.
NYPD non-uniformed personnel staffing dropped 11.1% since fiscal 2019, from 17,025 to fifteen,135.
Abdullah Ar Rafee, knowledge supervisor for the nonprofit assume tank Empire Middle for Public Coverage, which tracks authorities payrolls statewide, credited the NYPD for making some strides slicing additional time the previous yr however mentioned it nonetheless has a protracted method to go.
He additionally insisted staffing shortages aren’t the primary motive OT remains to be via the roof– it’s years of company price range bungling.
“There’s nonetheless an enormous difficulty of mismanagement that must be addressed,” the info supervisor added. “They blow their additional time budgets yr after yr – sometimes within the first six months.”
The NYPD didn’t return messages.
