CHICAGO -- Is it possible to make more than $200,000 in overtime in one year? If one is a City of Chicago employee, the answer is yes. CBS 2 got a first look at some soon-to-be released data from the Chicago Office of Budget and Management. The data showed last year, there were dozens of city employees making more than $100,000 in overtime. In one department, just two employees took home a combined total of nearly $500,000 in overtime.
The data show 85 sworn Chicago Police Department members - the largest department - made more than $100,000 in overtime last year. Two of them, made more than double that. One member made $254,152 in overtime, while another made $231,505. Altogether, that is almost $500,000 in overtime alone for just two police department employees in one year. 'This person unquestionably worked all of the time to result in pay at that level,' said Ferguson.