Post by Logan on Mar 6, 2017 19:26:19 GMT -6
ALBANY - The overtime number jumps off the page.
How can someone earn more than 3,000 hours of overtime in a year?
Just a quick back-of-the-envelope calculation shows that so much overtime equates to about 60 hours a week in overtime alone; 52 weeks a year.
So when state records last month showed the top overtime earner in New York state government received 3,312 hours of overtime last year, the first question from dozens of readers to the USA TODAY Network's Albany Bureau was: How could that be?
Turns out, it can be.
Read more: www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/politics/albany/2017/03/03/how-can-ny-worker-get-3300-ot-hours/98693488/
How can someone earn more than 3,000 hours of overtime in a year?
Just a quick back-of-the-envelope calculation shows that so much overtime equates to about 60 hours a week in overtime alone; 52 weeks a year.
So when state records last month showed the top overtime earner in New York state government received 3,312 hours of overtime last year, the first question from dozens of readers to the USA TODAY Network's Albany Bureau was: How could that be?
Turns out, it can be.
Read more: www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/politics/albany/2017/03/03/how-can-ny-worker-get-3300-ot-hours/98693488/