NY state overtime costs on pace for record high
Over $316 million through June!
ALBANY— New York state agencies racked up more than $316 million in overtime in the first six months of 2014, according to the state comptroller’s office, continuing a recent trend of sharply higher overtime costs for taxpayers.
If the pace continues, New York will spend nearly two-thirds of a billion dollars on overtime this year, according to Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. That would be $30 million more than in 2013. Overtime costs were $529 million in 2012 and $469 million in 2011.
“This troubling trend could again result in a record-breaking year of overtime hours and overtime pay,” DiNapoli said in a statement accompanying his report. “Our state agencies need to examine their practices, get to the root of what is driving high overtime and better manage these costs.”