Pazmino — who has worked for the railroad since 1985 — made the extra moolah by putting in for 4,157 hours of overtime, along with 1,688 hours he worked at his regular $35-an-hour rate, the MTA revealed Monday.
That works out to an average of 22.4 hours a day from Monday to Friday — or 16 hours a day, 365 days in the year.
The MTA couldn’t say how many hours Pazmino had logged in a single shift — but noted weekend tours can last up to 55 hours during an outage.
Federal laws limit the number of consecutive hours train crews and dispatchers can work, but don’t apply to track maintenance workers, according to a spokesman for the Federal Railroad Administration.
How much of those hours was CREDIT, and how much was actually worked?
For instance, one city worker I know gets 8 hours of weekend credit, + 8 hours of overnight credit, + overtime, just for showing up to change a light on a snowplow, on a weekend night. And this was three+ decades ago.