Martins, who is in her second term on the City Council and chaired the council’s public safety committee last term, said councilors in the past have questioned where the OT is coming from. Mayor Carlo DeMaria could not be reached for comment Friday. “There is no one at the top drawing a line in the sand for how much is too much.”Įverett police did not return Herald voicemails seeking comment regarding the OT situation Friday. “What you see in some of these municipalities is similar to what you see in state government when it comes to overtime pay,” said Paul Craney, spokesman for the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance. Dozens more came close, punching in for $80,000 to $90,000 in OT.
The initial story in the Herald’s “Your Tax Dollars at Work” project earlier this month found that 220 state employees earned $100,000 or more last year in overtime pay. If the Everett police patrolman who earned $196,863.37 in OT - the city’s highest - and more than tripled his base pay to $330,884 were on the state OT list, he would would have missed cracking the top 10 by less than $1,000. The difference between the fourth and fifth highest earners is $55,854. More than 100 officers in the city’s police department earned at least some OT pay last year, and amounts vary greatly.
