NYC’s Overtime Express

Overtime pay more than doubled the number of city employees earning six figures last year, to a quarter of the workforce. And for “overtime,” read “Team de Blasio mismanagement.”

The stats come from OpenTheBooks.com, which tracks pay for 15 million US public employees. It notes that 37,000 of the city’s 295,455 full-time workers crossed the $100,000 line thanks to their regular salaries, while more than 39,000 more did it via OT.

In all, overtime accounts for 12 percent of the city’s pay costs, three times the 3.5 percent average in the private sector. That makes it a clear sign that city managers aren’t on top of their workforce.

Plus, much of the OT is being racked up by employees in their final years on the job to boost their pensions. Which means future taxpayers will be covering even more added costs for this mismanagement.

Mayoral spokeswoman Freddi Goldstein waved off the news with talk of the city’s “dedicated public servants,” who are “the hardest-working in the world.” She also claimed City Hall is “constantly monitoring [overtime] use citywide to determine if there are areas where we can do even better.”

If they can do even better? It’s obvious they’re not even trying.