The NYPD’s highest paid officer of last year pulled in over $400,000, over half of which came from her substantial record of overtime, earning her the highest salary of her almost two-decade long career in law enforcement.
According to city records, Lieutenant Quathisha Epps made a total of $403,515 in fiscal year 2024, earning $204,453.48 in overtime pay on top of her base salary of $164,477 and fringe benefits. Epps, who has served 19 years in NYPD chief of department Jeffrey Maddrey’s office and is a lieutenant on special assignment, made most of her overtime pay doing administrative work, such as personnel.
Epps’ total compensation reportedly passed Maddrey’s by over $111,400, as he earned $292,069 in fiscal year 2024, the city records show.
Based on the records, the overall pay of Epps, who is also a three-time cancer survivor, also passed the total compensation of the NYPD’s ex-Police Commissioner Edward Caban, who earned a total of $288,332 in fiscal year 2024.
Epps, 51, worked nearly 1,627 hours of overtime plus her regular shifts, or an average of roughly 74 hours per week, records showed.
Other NYPD officials who made the top of the department’s payroll last year included Christopher Millevoi, a 13-year stationary engineer who made $389,192.65 by pulling in a considerable $200,859 in overtime pay, and Lt. John P. Brennan, a 26-year department vet who earned $378,437.62, with $168,132.38 in overtime.
“Employees are always going to get overtime because the alternative is to have too many employees,” said Ken Girardin, research director at the conservative watchdog Empire Center for Public Policy, said at a city council budget hearing in May. “But public employees, especially in an operation as large as the NYPD, shouldn’t be getting $100,000 in overtime. That shows something is fundamentally broken.”
In total, 392 NYPD employees earned at least $100,000 by working overtime this past fiscal year, records indicate.
