Metro

City’s overtime kings reign again

It might be time for the city to hand out lifetime-achievement awards for overtime.

The newly released list of the city’s top 100 OT earners in 2012 includes veteran employees who have been doubling their base salaries year after year with barely a peep out of management.

Setting the standard is Pablo Martinez, a senior computer programmer at the Board of Elections, who came in third this year with total earnings of $210,663. His regular salary was $98,652.

Martinez has been on the list for so long — at least a decade — that The Post has dubbed him the city’s OT king.

The Department of Transportation had 29 workers in the top OT club, more than any other agency. As usual, many worked for the Staten Island Ferry.

Agency spokesman Seth Solomonow said union contracts call for the ferry workers to put in four-day workweeks when they’re actually needed for five days.

“So there is a lot of non-discretionary overtime,” he said.

“Despite these facts, the base salaries and overtime earned together bring ferry workers to salary levels comparable to workers on the private side of the industry in this area.”

Behind Transportation was the Correction Department, with 24 employees earning big OT bucks.

Among them were steamfitters Samuel Anderson and Joseph Kufi, who pulled in $123,321 and $115,262 respectively above their base salaries of $89,230.

Correction Department spokesman Robin Campbell said they and other tradespeople were assigned to “one-time infrastructure projects on Rikers Island” and it wouldn’t have been cost-effective to hire extra personnel.