Muni OT skyrockets to $1.6B

Some city agencies saw their overtime costs surge by as much as 45 percent as the city forked over $1.6 billion in additional pay to municipal workers over the past 12 months, records show.

Correction Department OT shot up 24 percent, to an average of $16,824 per employee, in the fiscal year ending June 30 compared with the previous year, according to the Mayor’s Management Report.

The agency had guards working extra shifts as violence flared at Rikers Island while staffing levels remained stagnant, experts said.

Cops made $614 million in overtime in FY 2015, by far the highest amount among city agencies and a 5 percent increase from FY 2014.

Protests that continued for months after Eric Garner died in a police chokehold in the summer of 2014 had cops clocking extra hours.

FDNY firefighters and EMTs made an average of $20,667 in OT per employee — the highest figure in the city — although the agency’s total OT declined slightly in FY 2015.

Sanitation workers hauled in $130.5 million in overtime, a 4 percent increase from the previous fiscal year due to the harsh winter.

Overtime rocketed 45 percent among city Department of Health workers and rose 5 percent among city hospital staffers. Officials attributed the extra pay to the Ebola response.