The NYPD has already blown its annual overtime budget by nearly $100 million this fiscal year, and is on track to spend nearly double what it was allotted for extra work on the job, according to a new analysis by City Comptroller Brad Lander.
Overtime for the NYPD was budgeted in the mayor’s January financial plan at $374 million for Fiscal Year 2023, which started on July 1 of last year and runs until June 30 of this year. But the Comptroller’s office reports that, through February 2023, the agency has already spent $472 million on OT in the first seven months of the fiscal year. The city’s fiscal watchdog projects that the Police Department will spend about $740 million on OT by the end of the fiscal year, nearly double what was budgeted and far in excess of any other city agency.
