New York Police Dept's Top Earner:$400,000/yr, Retires Early

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https://nypost.com/2024/12/18/us-news/nypds-400k-a-year-top-earner-is-retiring-early-as-astronomical-overtime-pay-is-investigated-sources/

" The NYPD's highest-paid employee who shoveled in more than $400,000 last year filed for retirement this week amid an internal affairs probe into her astronomical overtime, The Post has learned.
Lt. Quathisha Epps will retire just shy of 20 years with the department, sources said".
" Leaving money on the table is seemingly uncharacteristic for Epps, who raised eyebrows by pulling in roughly $204,000 in overtime last year for her administrative job in NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey's office, payroll records show."

" Sources told The Post that Epps' whopping overtime was capped after The Post's exclusive report last month on her pay. She was also told she'd be put back on patrol an apparently unappetizing prospect after her cushy desk job, according to the sources."
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LOL. She must have some impressive administrative skills to be pulling down $204,000 a year in overtime!
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In reply to UTExan • 6:05p, 12/18/24
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Who approves that?
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6:09p, 12/18/24
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Lt. Quathisha

To no one's surprise.
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6:11p, 12/18/24
DOGE is not just needed at the fedgov level.
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I presume she falsified those hours? If not, the fault is with her management for allowing that much overtime. If so, she should be in jail for fraud, and she won't need the extravagant pension.
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6:13p, 12/18/24
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The good Lt deserves jail time.
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6:13p, 12/18/24
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Overtime for a desk job?
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In reply to Max Stonetrail • 6:13p, 12/18/24
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No kidding. I have been waiting on a Texas unclaimed fund claim that I submitted in July. I called them last week and they said they received the paperwork but have not assigned anyone yet to review it.
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In reply to CampSkunk • 6:13p, 12/18/24
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CampSkunk said:
I presume the falsified those hours? If not, the fault is with her management for allowing that much overtime. If so, she should be in jail for fraud, and she won't need the extravagant pension.


Something tells me she was probably allowed to approve her own OT. Otherwise her super deserves sone jail time too.
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6:24p, 12/18/24
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I know a small East Tx town under 10,000 pop. Paying the police chief over 200k.
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6:28p, 12/18/24
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She's a bald midget.

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Quathisha? That's it, I'm drinking whiskey tonight instead of beer.
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7:20p, 12/18/24
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New York is a lost cause state. Any news out of it is best ignored.
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7:27p, 12/18/24
How do you retire "shy of 20 years"?
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7:30p, 12/18/24
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Looks like a 5'2" Reggie miller
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8:26p, 12/18/24
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The crazy thing here is that her hourly, base pay has to be about $200k/yr. She got paid over $400k with $200k of that in OT.
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In reply to BadMoonRisin • 9:12p, 12/18/24
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BadMoonRisin said:
Looks like a 4'10" Reggie miller
FIFY

Now that she's retiring, she should try her hand on Broadway. DEI midgets with urban first names have really made some inroads of late
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11:20p, 12/18/24
Where are the auditors? She must have had a sup that had to sign off on the OT.

The entire NYCPD should be riled about that OT, especially doing just admin work.
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In reply to 13B • 11:26p, 12/18/24
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13B said:
How do you retire "shy of 20 years"?


Public Safety has much different retirement rules than rank and file govt employees.
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This happens in a lot of government/public service jobs. It's their incentive. When you retire at the average pay of your last X years of service into perpetuity , you're incentivized to find more pay in those last X years. That's why you see so much bull**** overtime right before someone retires. It's a poor incentive structure for taxpayers.
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Hey, it's not easy to work 180 hours per week!
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She was working 67.75 hours a week for 52 weeks or 68.86 hours a week for 50 weeks with 2 weeks PTO at base. It's alot of hours, but doesn't seem super unreasonable. The $94.23/hr base pay seems high, but if she's basically an executive assistant for the chief, it could be possible.

Just a rough calculation here.

Total income: $400k
Overtime: $204k
Base: $196k

Base pay: $94.23/hr
40 hrs x 52 weeks = 2080 hours
2080 x 94.23 = 195,998.40

Overtime pay: $141.35/hr
204k / 141.35 = 1443.23 hours
1443.23 hr / 52 weeks = 27.75 hrs/week
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In reply to UTExan • 5:32a, 12/19/24
Maddening! A Lt never needs overtime like that ever. Give OT to the street officers and detectives. Poor leadership.
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In reply to Dill-Ag13 • 5:33a, 12/19/24
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Who approves that?
Who's going to stop it? She's a Lt, she's a she, and she's black.
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You can see the rage here on Tisch's face. She will not stand for this!!!

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In reply to UTExan • 5:56a, 12/19/24
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All I know is it would be incredibly infuriating to work as a cop in NYC.
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In reply to Sea Speed • 6:07a, 12/19/24
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Sea Speed said:
She's a bald midget.

Who is the Black Chinese brother?
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Frank Reagan needs to deal with this.....
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In reply to Bluto • 6:10a, 12/19/24
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Bluto said:
She was working 67.75 hours a week for 52 weeks or 68.86 hours a week for 50 weeks with 2 weeks PTO at base. It's alot of hours, but doesn't seem super unreasonable. The $94.23/hr base pay seems high, but if she's basically an executive assistant for the chief, it could be possible.

Just a rough calculation here.

Total income: $400k
Overtime: $204k
Base: $196k

Base pay: $94.23/hr
40 hrs x 52 weeks = 2080 hours
2080 x 94.23 = 195,998.40

Overtime pay: $141.35/hr
204k / 141.35 = 1443.23 hours
1443.23 hr / 52 weeks = 27.75 hrs/week
It's most likely double time over 60 hours.

And, they could have done special holiday situations where the rate was even higher.

When I used to work for Dell in the 1990s, they would pay the tech support people triple time to work on Christmas Day.
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In reply to Sea Speed • 6:22a, 12/19/24
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Lt. Quathisha

To no one's surprise.
Was very surprised when I googled her that she was black...
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In reply to CampSkunk • 7:38a, 12/19/24
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CampSkunk said:
I presume she falsified those hours? If not, the fault is with her management for allowing that much overtime. If so, she should be in jail for fraud, and she won't need the extravagant pension.
EDIT: See Bluto already addressed this.

But No way she worked those hours for a year. No one can work that many hours and be effective at there job.
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In reply to Sea Speed • 7:40a, 12/19/24
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Back on 5/9/2018, according to public records, a foreclosure action commenced against QUATHISHA EPPS in Orange County, NY.

The foreclosure action was discontinued on 12/7/22
How the heck would a foreclosure take 4 years? Esp.with the crazy real estate market in 2020. I'd think the banks would have pushed that thru ASAP to resell and recover their lost $$
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In reply to jwhaby • 7:42a, 12/19/24
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jwhaby said:
This happens in a lot of government/public service jobs. It's their incentive. When you retire at the average pay of your last X years of service into perpetuity , you're incentivized to find more pay in those last X years. That's why you see so much bull**** overtime right before someone retires. It's a poor incentive structure for taxpayers.
I don't think OT factors into retirement pay. At least it did not when I worked for the state of Texas. It was your ave. base pay for the last 3 years. That's when folks were doing everything they could to get promoted and pay increases before they retired.
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In reply to agracer • 7:47a, 12/19/24
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It depends on how the pension plan is set up. Different plans have different rules and pay out at different percentages.
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