101 hours a week
The state employee with the highest overtime income in 2016 was an Office of Information Technology Services employee who racked up $180k on top of her base salary, according to numbers FOIL'ed by the USA Today Network Albany bureau. If it's not some sort of accounting quirk, the number of reported overtime hours indicate the person worked, on average, 101-hour weeks in 2016. [USA Today Network/Rochester D&C]
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That woman needs to be investigated! I find it hard to believe she worked 3,312 overtime hours in addition to her 37.5 a week.
... said John on Feb 13, 2017 at 5:02 PM | link
@john: yes she should. If you consider 5 business days a week, that's 260 days a year without taking vacation or sick days. 3,312 overtime hours is almost 13 hours of *just overtime* per business day, all year long. Ridiculous.
... said -S on Feb 13, 2017 at 8:14 PM | link
Her hours certainly do look unusual, but it's not entirely inconceivable for someone in IT to work that much if they are on call, work on weekends, work overnights or work in a unit that is so short-staffed that it is necessary to pull 15 or 16-hour days on the regular just to keep things afloat. I know someone who is similarly overloaded but isn't OT-eligible, so she gets a whole lot of nothing for her extra effort.
... said Fionn on Feb 14, 2017 at 10:00 AM | link