Investigation offers insight into Arizona county's overtime payouts
The highest-paid employee in Maricopa County, Arizona, took home nearly double his salary in overtime last year, according to an investigation by the Arizona Republic.
The undercover narcotics investigator earned more than $61,000 for 1,107 hours of additional work. He bested the overtime employee attendance earnings of a medical assistant working for the correctional health department, who took second place in the rankings.
Both a sheriff's office deputy chief and the director of the correctional health department defended the high payouts, arguing that observing a time and attendance policy that requires current employees to work overtime is cheaper than expanding the workforce. Correctional health director Thomas Tegeler also noted that his department has seen success in its effort to crack down on excessive overtime pay.
"I would say that we are doing a better job controlling overtime today than we were a year ago," he said, as quoted by the news source.
In an effort to reduce overtime expenditures, the city council of Scottsdale, Arizona, approved a new overtime policy earlier this year. The measure exempts non-worked hours - such as vacation time and sick leave - from contributing to the total hours on an officer's payroll.
The undercover narcotics investigator earned more than $61,000 for 1,107 hours of additional work. He bested the overtime employee attendance earnings of a medical assistant working for the correctional health department, who took second place in the rankings.
Both a sheriff's office deputy chief and the director of the correctional health department defended the high payouts, arguing that observing a time and attendance policy that requires current employees to work overtime is cheaper than expanding the workforce. Correctional health director Thomas Tegeler also noted that his department has seen success in its effort to crack down on excessive overtime pay.
"I would say that we are doing a better job controlling overtime today than we were a year ago," he said, as quoted by the news source.
In an effort to reduce overtime expenditures, the city council of Scottsdale, Arizona, approved a new overtime policy earlier this year. The measure exempts non-worked hours - such as vacation time and sick leave - from contributing to the total hours on an officer's payroll.
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