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Overtime Incentives Inflate City Police and Fire Pensions
Syracuse city data show overtime payments fueled pension boosts for retiring officers and firefighters. Retirees often cash in long‑planned overtime, increasing final years’ salaries and resulting pensions, with some top earners surpassing six figures. Police overtime doubled from 1995 to 1999 as staffing grew, while fire overtime stayed volatile but high.
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Syracuse
Salares
First
John Kennedy
Kennedy
Berardi
Fire Department
van Robinson
Syracuse Financial Plan Commission
Nelson
Dean Bender
Quest
Bender
Aneurimne
Tony Sobon
Roy Bernardi
Syracuse Hancock International Airport
Syracuse City
Tony Sabon
Bernardi
Sobon
Loretta Arlotta
Arlotta
Gary Pratt
Pratt
Arletta
Kenneth Mokrzycki
Mokrzycki