This story was completed with support from SpotlightDC and in partnership with the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University.
For D.C. Metropolitan Police Department sergeant Tony Giles, working overtime is a full-time job of its own.
In the budget year ending September 30, 2022, Giles billed the city for 2,735 extra work hours, which – on top of a regular 40-hour workweek – is equivalent to working a 13-hour day, every single day, for all 365 days of the year.
This harrowing workload was so lucrative that Giles out-earned the highest paid officials in city government in fiscal year 2022. His total compensation was greater than the publicly reported salaries of every other city employee, including the police chief and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser.
Giles, whose base salary was $114,000 that year, ultimately took home $361,000 in total pay.
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The 33-year MPD veteran has doubled his base salary every year since at least 2014 – the earliest year with publicly available data on the D.C. Council’s website. And this year, he surpassed his 2022 total; as of the end of July, with a month-and-a-half remaining in the 2023 budget year, he’d already earned $249,577 in overtime and other bonus pay.
While Giles was the department’s highest earner, he was far from the only officer in the District significantly padding his wallet by banking overtime hours. He was one of 41 MPD employees who earned more than $100,000 in overtime and other...
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