Employees with the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff-Coroner’s Office earned more than $9 million in overtime pay in 2025, according to an analysis of county workers’ compensation records by The Tribune.
More than a third of the total — about $3.4 million — was paid to deputy sheriffs, the front-line officers who respond to crimes and protect public safety across the county.
Correctional deputies’ overtime pay cost the county $2.2 million and senior deputy sheriffs received about $1.1 million in overtime pay. The rest came from other department employees.
The Tribune examined the overtime use after filing a California Public Records Act request with the county, reviewing the most recent documents available to determine which Sheriff’s Office employees were paid the highest wages and who reported the most overtime hours in 2025.
SLO County shared records about Sheriff’s Office overtime pay from Dec. 22, 2024, through Dec. 20, 2025.
The records broke down overtime by employee and offered a look at how the Sheriff’s Office deploys resources as a full-time law enforcement agency covering all of San Luis Obispo County.
A total of 388 employees — about four-fifths of the agency’s 494 employees — collectively logged 134,918 hours of overtime, records show.
That equates to 5,621 days of round-the-clock work.
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