Over the past 10 years, New York City's overtime spending has increased from $928 million to $1.7 billion, according to the Independent Budget Office watchdog organization.
The $731 million represents a rise of 80%, or about 40% factoring inflation.
"While the increase in overtime spending over the 10 years appears sizable in dollar terms, as a share of total city spending the increase looks somewhat more modest: [rising] from 1.7% in 2006 to 2.2% in 2015," IBO's Frank Posillico wrote in a
Uniformed personnel including police, fire, correction, and sanitation accounted for roughly 70% of total citywide overtime spending, with the cost increasing from $635 million in 2006 to $1.290 billion in 2015, up $555 million, or close to 90% -- about 45 percent adjusted for inflation.
The city's civilian workers, roughly three-fourths of the municipal labor force, accounted for the remaining increase in overtime spending. For them, overtime spending rose from $293 million in 2006 to $469 million in 2015, up $176 million.
