The best-paid NYPD worker final 12 months raked in over $400,000 doing administrative work — with greater than half of her haul coming from staggering time beyond regulation pay, The Submit has discovered.
Lt. Quathisha Epps, a 19-year veteran in NYPD Chief of Division Jeffrey Maddrey’s workplace, pocketed an eye-watering $403,515 in fiscal 12 months 2024, having pulled in $204,453.48 in time beyond regulation pay on prime of her base wage of $164,477 and fringe advantages, in response to metropolis payroll data.
The astonishing time beyond regulation quantity alone — which is the best paid by the division in not less than a decade, in response to NYC Open Knowledge — can be sufficient to cowl the salaries of three new NYPD officers with the division’s beginning wage of $58,580.
Epps’ bloated whole compensation even eclipsed her boss’ earnings by greater than $111,400. Maddrey, who’s the highest uniformed cop, earned $292,069 in fiscal 12 months 2024, in response to metropolis data.
The NYPD’s prime earner, who’s a Lieutenant Particular Project, raked within the spectacular six-figure earnings doing administrative duties in Maddrey’s workplace, equivalent to personnel, in response to a supply acquainted with her position.
The revelation enraged the NYPD’s rank-and-file placing their lives on the road on the streets.
“What administrative work requires you to stay there 115 to 120 hours every f–king month to apply that type of money?” one Bronx cop with 20 years on the job raged to The Submit.
“That’s ridiculous for someone who’s never in the streets,” he added. “She doesn’t have an arrest, is not even in a position to [be] dealing with prisoners or courts at all.”
Epps, 51, labored almost 1627 hours of time beyond regulation plus her common shifts — or a median of roughly 74 hours per week, data confirmed.
“Are any detectives on the street making that kind of money? What about captains or inspectors running commands?” one other veteran cop with over 25 years on the job barked.
“They’re not making that kind of money.”
A 3-time most cancers survivor, Epps’ total pay final fiscal 12 months additionally dwarfed the full compensation of the NYPD’s ex-Police Commissioner Edward Caban, who earned a complete of $288,332 in fiscal 12 months 2024, data present.
Different NYPD officers who topped the NYPD’s payroll final 12 months included Christopher Millevoi, a 13-year stationary engineer who raked in $389,192.65 by pulling in a staggering $200,859 in time beyond regulation pay, and Lt. John P. Brennan, a 26-year division vet who banked $378,437.62, with $168,132.38 in time beyond regulation.
In whole, 392 NYPD workers pocketed not less than $100,000 in time beyond regulation this previous fiscal 12 months, data present.
At a heated metropolis council finances listening to in Could, the NYPD’s prime brass attributed not less than $168 million in unplanned time beyond regulation pay to policing anti-Israel protests and migrant shelters.
“Employees are always going to get overtime because the alternative is to have too many employees,” stated Ken Girardin, analysis director on the conservative watchdog Empire Heart for Public Coverage.
“But public employees, especially in an operation as large as the NYPD, shouldn’t be getting $100,000 in overtime. That shows something is fundamentally broken.”
Epps justified her voluminous time beyond regulation hours and earnings with the truth that she juggles “more than one role” within the division, however referred to the NYPD’s Public Info Workplace for readability on her obligations.
“I’m a really good lady, I do positive things,” she stated.
The NYPD didn’t reply to The Submit’s request for remark.
