Employees at the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office have logged more than 700,000 overtime hours since the start of 2018, according to records provided Thursday to FOX10 News.
that his office also is looking into whether Holifield improperly billed overtime.more than 2,600 hoursBut it was not just Holifield. Since Jan. 1, 2018, Mobile County Metro Jail employees collectively have earned more than 340,000 overtime hours. Employees for the rest of the Sheriff’s Office have earned more than 370,000 hours. The combined total of 717,460 overtime hours comes to almost $25 million.
A year-by-year breakdown shows overtime at the Sheriff’s Department surged in 2022. Non-jail employees at the department averaged 61,739 hours per year from 2018 through 2021. That jumped to 85,830 last year and is on a pace to exceed that by the end of this calendar year. Myles previously has said Burch already has put in place additional controls to prevent future overtime abuses. But she has pointed out that overtime is unavoidable for a law enforcement agency. Jailers, for instance, work longer shifts, which builds guaranteed overtime into their pay.
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