The MBTA has logged $69.30 million in overtime this year with months still left to go.
A Herald analysis of the added hours shows 11 employees — including Transit Police officers — already eclipsing $100,000-plus in OT, state Comptroller records show.
Another 160 more T employees have punched in for at least $50,000 in added pay so far this year.
The Herald has requested a sit-down interview with MBTA General Manager Phillip Eng to ask how transit employees can work such daunting hours and still perform at maximum efficiency. Or, if there are other factors allowing them to rack up such hefty bonus pay year after year.
The Comptruller’s CTHRU payroll-tracking site shows the MBTA is by far the tops in overtime this year, with the State Police coming in second at $46.02 million in OT hours.
The state Department of Correction is at $40.83 million as that agency struggles again with capping added hours.
MassDOT, DMH, DDS, DCF, and the Suffolk Sheriff’s Department fall in behind with all of them above $13 million in overtime so far this year.
T workers clocked in with $99.07 million in OT last year and $85.29 million the year before, Comptroller records show.
The 2020 pandemic year saw overtime slip to $81.37 million after hitting $96.17 million in 2019, records show.
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