Employee Overtime Hours

Third Quarter, 2012

Some of the significant overtime usage highlights through the 3rd Quarter of this year are:

There were 1.2 million overtime hours worked year-to-date through the 3rd Quarter 2012, which was 194,000 hours or approximately 14% less than the same period last year.
Port Authority Line Departments were on budget through the 3rd quarter with 542,000 overtime hours, which was about 180,000 hours or 25% less than the comparable period in 2011.
Overall, Public Safety worked 578,000 hours of overtime, 244,000 hours or 73% higher than budgeted, and 41,000 hours or 8% more than actual usage in 2011 over the same period.
Actual overtime usage by Other Departments was over budget by 14,000 hours but under 2011 actual hours for the first three quarters by 56,000 hours or 32%.