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Posted on 11/22/2025 9:16:56 AM PST by DFG
The NYPD shelled out nearly $1.1 billion on overtime last fiscal year – the most of any city agency, but still nearly 14% less than the prior 12 months, The Post has learned.
Cops and non-uniformed NYPD staffers pocketed a combined $1,087,616,025 in OT for the fiscal year ending June 30 – including a jaw-dropping 55 captains, lieutenants, detectives and other staffers who each raked in more than $100,000 in OT beyond their actual salaries, an analysis of newly released payroll records.
Leading the way was now-retired Lt. John Tancredi, who racked up 1,256 extra hours – worth $163,681 – bringing his total pay to $345,249.
Lt. Christopher Cheng, a 27-year veteran, was second with $147,758 in paid OT — that’s 1,122 extra hours worked — bringing his total earnings to $340,249 with base pay and fringe benefits.
Cheng, who works in Midtown’s Manhattan South precinct where cops routinely clock in extra hours monitoring protests, declined to comment through his union reps. Tancredi could not be reached.
NYPD overtime spending – which accounted for 18% of the agency’s $6 billion payroll – wound up a whopping 59% over the $601.9 million budgeted for fiscal 2025.
Still, overall overtime dropped 13.7% from $1,259,696,367 the previous fiscal year after Mayor Eric Adams and newly appointed NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch laid out new rules in December aimed at cracking down on sky-high OT.
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Defund them. Wait, don’t defund them.
A little math would help.
This mean the average base pay for a NYPD cop is 4147,557., and avg overtime per cop was $32,356.
This is for the most hated profession amongst Gotham’s leftist citizens.
I’d say they’re getting paid fairly. Maybe even a little under what they should get.
YMMV.
There were 33,614 NYPD cops working for the NYPD last fiscal year… NYPD overtime spending – which accounted for 18% of the agency’s $6 billion payroll
A little math would help.
This mean the average base pay for a NYPD cop is $148,353., and avg overtime per cop was $32,356.
This is for the most hated profession amongst Gotham’s leftist citizens.
I’d say they’re getting paid fairly. Maybe even a little under what they should get.
YMMV.
Hell, both the leaders of the major Teachers Unions “earn” almost half a megabuck salary every year and “10 Executives at the ASPCA Received $30 Million in Compensation” while the US President only gets $400k and year.
My dad was NYPD for 23 years from the mid 60’s to the late 80’s....
I presently have 2 nephews who are NYPD- they originally left after being on the job a year then returned...
I asked my wife if they are going to leave again and she told me both are making max pay (no clue what that is) and will stay unless it gets really bad... One of the nephews was in the middle of the BLM attacks in 2020 (outside the Barclays Center, then outside Macys Herald Square when they broke in)...
Many employers do the math, and decide it’s cheaper to pay overtime than hire additional employees.
Or maybe they can’t find additional employees.
Or maybe it’s a legal scam to boost retirement pay.
Or maybe it’s all of the above.
“ the US President only gets $400k and year.”
Em… trump donates his presidential salary. Always
And $100k does not go far in NYC, the boroughs nor the surrounding counties
Everyone is working. No one’s home.
They want a socialist mayor? They may as well get some benefit
They’re living a communist life no one is in the house. They do nothing but work. They have no choice but to sen their kids to hate America govt schools. The private schools are worse at $35k per year
I suppose it’s a side issue, but the ASPCA is a disgrace. They show pictures of abused animals on their commercials while their top executives rake in hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Animal lovers (of which I’m one) would do better to donate to local animal shelters.
Oh, and one more thing. The ASPCA is not alone here. It’s amazing - and not in a good way - how many “charity” executives are paid princely sums.
The highest overtime was 1,256 hours in a year. That ammounts to a total work week of 64 hours a week, including overtime.
It is not an uncommon amount of work for police, especially if they are short-handed. Consider though the base pay of about 80 dollars an hour. It is higher than average for a police officer, but is not exhorbitantly higher.
Consider the cost of another officer. They not only get the base pay, they get all the benefits, which in NYC are about equal to the base salary. Overtime is only 1.5 times base salary.
Hiring another officer is more expensive than paying for overtime.
As an incentive to work copious overtime, retirement after 22 years of service is 50% of the “best year” which includes overtime.
How many officers is the department supposed to have and how many are currently on the force now? That always will be a huge factor and how much overtime spending is. If you need say 100 officers in a certain area each shift, would only have 70 available because you are understaffed, you’re going to quickly run into problems and bleed, cash through overtime..
DC cops were building back from an 800 employee deficit, but then Pres. Trump’s push ended, and a bunch took retirement, so they’re down to 1000 undermanned again.
“Leading the way was now-retired Lt. John Tancredi, who racked up 1,256 extra hours – worth $163,681 – bringing his total pay to $345,249.“
If I am not mistaken, their pension is based on the average of the last 36 months of earnings. So when they are nearing retirement the boost their overtime so they can collect a tidy sum for the rest of their lives.
Pretty nice scam.
It's called "Pension Spiking", and is widely practiced in Police and Fire Departments nationally (and to a lesser degree in other government positions). In addition to overtime, pension spiking practices include buying years of service credit and short term promotions of 1-3 years just before retirement. Getting a bump to Lt or Capt for your last couple years has a huge impact on pension. And then there's the standard disability fraud, where people who are actually in above average health for their age receive large, tax free disability payments on top of their pension, at taxpayer expense.
Total earnings to $340,249 with base pay and fringe benefits.
Wonder how many with a PHD make that kind of money.
Its not the job that counts it’s the loopholes.
Mamdani will fix that by hiring illegal immigrant Muslims to fill the PD forces and he’s very likely to enact Sharia laws.
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