Overtime, vacation buyouts push Boston’s payroll to new high
The city’s payroll reached a new high of $1.6 billion last year, according to The Boston Globe. Documents released by Mayor Martin J. Walsh’s office showed that many of the payments were sick and vacation buyouts for retirees, and police overtime.
In two cases, the city paid over $100,000 for unused sick and vacation time. Former schools superintendent John McDonough, who retired last June, made $168,000 in unused sick and vacation time in addition to his position’s regular salary, according to Walsh’s office. John Hasson, the recently-retired operations chief of the fire department, was paid an addition $188,000 for unused sick and vacation time as well.
Thanks to a “quirk in the calendar,’’ the mayor and City Council received an extra paycheck in 2015.
“Every six years, there is an extra pay period,’’ Walsh’s spokeswoman, Laura Oggeri, told the Globe.
Read the Globe’s full story here.
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