Austin spends more on overtime than Dallas

AUSTIN (KXAN) – City employees are working longer hours than ever, and Austin’s overtime budget for roughly 13,500 employees is ballooning. From the Police Department to Parks and Recreation, a KXAN investigation has found several city departments are exceeding overtime budgets and employees, in some cases, are even doubling their salaries.
From fiscal year 2015 to 2016, citywide overtime pay jumped from $64 million to $71 million -- an 11 percent increase, according to payroll