Mayor Eric Adams is the top boss of roughly 300,000 city employees, but in his first year in office he was only the Big Apple’s 418th highest-paid employee, according to a new report from the think tank Empire Center for Public Policy.
The city shelled out $2.53 billion in overtime in Fiscal Year 2023, which ran from July 2022 to June 2023, a $90 million increase from the $2.44 billion doled out the prior year, according to the Empire Center, which analyzed publicly available city payroll records.
