‘This job has cost me a millionon dollars a year’

Top cop Bill Bratton, who is leaving One Police Plaza next month for the more lucrative private sector, said that serving as police commissioner “has literally cost me a million dollars a year.”

Bratton, 68, unexpectedly announced Tuesday that he had quit the NYPD, with Mayor de Blasio saying he would promote Bratton’s handpicked successor, Chief of Department James O’Neill to the position.

Bratton — who made about $208,000 last year — is going to head up a new division of Teneo Holdings, a consulting firm with deep ties to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton.

Bratton will rake in $1 millionplus a year, sources have said.

He told PBS interviewer Charlie Rose his father’s recent death had forced him to confront the fact that he’s “not a person of means.”

“If that illness had continued, I would have been in very significant financial difficulty trying to arrange for the best of care for him,” Bratton said during the Wednesday night broadcast.

“To take this job [as commissioner], I was giving up at this time a significant seven-figure income. Over the last several years, this job has literally cost me a million dollars a year,” he said.

“When faced with my dad’s situation, I realized how fragile my financial situation was for me and my wife, but also for my extended family. I want to be able to take care of my grandkids.”

Bratton’s father, William E. Brat- ton, died in March at age 89 after being diagnosed with a brain tumor.

Not counting his NYPD salary, Bratton pocketed at least $1.4 million in private-sector severance, public pension and other payments during 2013, when he returned to city employment, a financial-disclosure form shows.

In 2014, his outside income fell to no more than $357,000.

Documents made public Thursday show he received a maximum of just $48,000 last year, all in gifts from the nonprofit New York Police Foundation, which pays for his membership at the Harvard Club.

Bratton lives with his wife, Rikki Klieman, in an Upper East Side apartment that has a market rent of around $6,000 a month, and his disclosure forms all show his ownership of a Massachusetts home he’s owned since 1976.

But none lists the weekend home in Hampton Bays that records show he and Klieman bought for $880,000 in 2010.

They finance that purchase with a $630,000 mortgage that carries an interest rate of 4.35 percent.