State staff aren’t the one ones loving all of the extra time up for grabs. Those on the municipal degree are raking in 1000’s in further {dollars} by working outdoors common hours, too.
Case in level: the Everett Police Department.
The metropolis’s high 4 OT earners are a pair of police patrolmen and officers who greater than doubled their base pay by clocking in an unknown quantity of additional hours, in keeping with an evaluation into the town’s ultimate payroll for 2022, obtained by way of a Herald public data request.
The high two, each patrolmen, earned greater than $315,000 in gross earnings, whereas the third and fourth highest earners took dwelling a ultimate revenue properly north of $200,000.
Encore Boston Harbor is a significant participant within the whopping extra time pay, City Councilor Stephanie Martins advised the Herald on Friday. While Everett does station some cops full-time on the built-in resort that includes a lodge, harborwalk, on line casino, eating places and extra, it’s not the case for all, Martins stated.
“A lot of the times the officers do choose to still work regular shifts and pick up the overtime … (at) the casino,” she stated. “They want to make as much as they can. They fully embrace those hours.”
More than 100 officers within the metropolis’s police division earned not less than some OT pay final yr, and quantities range significantly. The distinction between the fourth and fifth highest earners is $55,854.
If the Everett police patrolman who earned $196,863.37 in OT — the town’s highest — and greater than tripled his base pay to $330,884 had been on the state OT listing, he would would have missed cracking the highest 10 by lower than $1,000.
The preliminary story within the Herald’s “Your Tax Dollars at Work” undertaking earlier this month discovered that 220 state staff earned $100,000 or extra final yr in extra time pay. Dozens extra got here shut, punching in for $80,000 to $90,000 in OT.
“What you see in some of these municipalities is similar to what you see in state government when it comes to overtime pay,” stated Paul Craney, spokesman for the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance. “There is no one at the top drawing a line in the sand for how much is too much.”
Everett police didn’t return Herald voicemails looking for remark relating to the OT scenario Friday. Mayor Carlo DeMaria couldn’t be reached for remark Friday.
Martins, who’s in her second time period on the City Council and chaired the council’s public security committee final time period, stated councilors prior to now have questioned the place the OT is coming from.
“The answer we got is ‘This is a person working inside the casino,’” she stated.
Encore has not offered remark since requested Friday.
In fiscal yr 2022, the town budgeted $1 million in police OT pay, however the police division exceeded that quantity by over $500,000, racking up $1.53 in complete OT pay, in keeping with metropolis finances paperwork. That represented a rise from the $1.1 million spent on OT in fiscal yr 2021.
DeMaria requested a police OT finances of $1.5 million this fiscal yr, however the precise allotted quantity was unclear Friday as a result of the adopted finances will not be posted on the town web site.
As Encore’s operator Wynn Resorts eyes an growth, Martins stated councilors are making a “huge” push for the town to renegotiate its neighborhood host settlement so Everett can obtain extra contributions to the neighborhood from the resort.
The proposed growth would develop 13 acres of paved parking heaps that Wynn Resorts owns throughout the road into an leisure vacation spot. The City Council voted final month to permit for the rezoning of the location.
“They’re growing and bringing all of these things at the expense of our traffic, our public safety and everything else,” Martins stated.
This is a part of an ongoing sequence of tales the Herald shall be writing as a part of the “Your Tax Dollars at Work” undertaking. Go to BostonHerald.com to see databases of state and municipal payrolls. If you might have a tip, e-mail [email protected] or [email protected].
TOP 10 EVERETT OVERTIME EARNERS
- Police patrolman
Overtime pay: $196,863.37
Total pay: $330,884.31 - Police patrolman
Overtime pay: $163,001.60
Total pay: $315,813.96 - Police officer
Overtime pay: $115,518.94
Total pay: $242,994.83 - Police officer
Overtime pay: $111,756.33
Total pay: $217,116.93 - Police sergeant
Overtime pay: $55,901.98
Total pay: $208,299.60 - Police officer
Overtime pay: $55,869.75
Total pay: $182,243.44 - Facilities upkeep supervisor
Overtime pay: 53463.69
Total pay 156478.79 - Police officer
Overtime pay: $51,893.32
Total pay: $156,281.66 - Police officer
Overtime pay: $50,778.68
Total pay: $158,155.79 - Police sergeant
Overtime pay: $47,202.13
Total pay: $207,868.94
Source: www.bostonherald.com”