This year’s unusual election cycle proved a bonanza for workers at the city’s Board of Elections, with 83 percent of the staff collecting overtime.
Records show that 824 of the board’s 993 employees shared in the OT windfall in the 2012 fiscal year that ended on June 30.
Topping the list was James Howley, an administrative aide at the board’s Brooklyn office, who clocked 1,496 OT hours for a total haul of $123,638 on a base salary of $58,398.
His colleague Khorshed Chowdhury made more in overtime than in regular salary — $53,046 vs. $51,425.
In addition to today’s standard primary, there was a presidential primary in April and federal face-offs in June, boosting OT.
And a tight June 26 special election to replace convicted state Sen. Carl Kruger in Brooklyn also ran up the OT tab.
“The margin of victory was less than .5 of a percentage point and thereby required that we conduct a manual recanvass of the over 22,000 ballots,” noted board spokeswoman Valerie Vazquez.