[nikerret]

On average, how much overtime (actual hours worked, not holiday pay, etc) do you work, a year?

The last few years it's between 300 and 400 hours. Another perspective: I work 59-62 forty-hour work weeks, a year.

You?

ETA: We have three weeks vacation, a year from years 5-10. This many hours is actually worked in 46-48 weeks, when you factor in vacation, sick, and training times.

If 40 hours a week X 52 weeks a year=2,080 hours, this would be 49 hours a week, worked, best case (300 hours OT in 48 weeks). Worst case is almost 54 hours a week (400 hours OT in 46 weeks).

This doesn't look that bad, until you realize there are several 40 hour weeks, in there, and a lot of 17+ hour days or days where you finish a shift then spend a day in court/training.

 

[seanmac45]

In my next to last year I did 500 hours. During my last year it was 800, but that was with a purpose. It was all pensionable and I was on the launch pad for retirement.

How do you work 59 or 62 forty hour weeks on a year?

 

[ZGXtreme]

For the past two years I’ve kept it to 0 hours. Outside gig doing funeral escorts is about 5 hours a month on average (had 10 this month) so 60 or so hours a year.

 

[DesertEagle.45]

In my current job I get paid for very few overtime hours. I give them 2-3 hours for free every week. I am an hourly employee and I'm suppose to charge all time but this way I know I'm to the good every week on my time. My old job it wasn't uncommon to work 105 hours a week while on travel and I was on travel for roughly half the year, sometimes more sometimes less.

 

[nikerret]

How do you work 59 or 62 forty hour weeks on a year?

That's how many weeks, at 40 hours per week, it would take to work that many hours. Just another viewpoint.

 

[Mechanical Diesel]

My department approved double time after 16 hours of overtime, so I've been working 72-80 hour weeks for some months now. Once the double time stops (some time in June, I believe) I'll go back down to 2 days of overtime a week.

 

[Ridgerunner665]

I worked 335 days last year... On average 12 hours per day.

Over the road flatbed truck driver.

Pretty good money, but a lot of blood, sweat, and tears to get it.

Oops.... On Tapatalk, just realized this is in the cop talk section... Don't guess you guys wanna hear my war stories, lol.

 

[ReaPer105]

Probably 100 hours. Not something I get much of.

 

[pgg00]

Usually over 500 hours a year. I pulled 37 hours of overtime last week. Up to 120 hours so far this year

 

[DonGlock26]

When I was a LEO, I use to work 300-400 hrs a year in OT. Now that I'm retired and
working in a second career, I work ZERO OT.

:grill:

 

[mrmike7189]

When I was a new officer, low in seniority,I would get forced overtime, so much that I vowed that when I move up the ranks,to never work overtime again. I think I was held over on double shifts approx. 150 times . made lots of $ . but I was a zombie and had no life except work, eat, sleep.
I now have 10 years seniority and work zero ot, but I am in the minority. Most officers I work with work one shift per week OT/8hours

 

[seanmac45]

That's how many weeks, at 40 hours per week, it would take to work that many hours. Just another viewpoint.

OK, gotcha I'm a little dense.

 

[seanmac45]

I worked 335 days last year... On average 12 hours per day.

Over the road flatbed truck driver.

Pretty good money, but a lot of blood, sweat, and tears to get it.

Oops.... On Tapatalk, just realized this is in the cop talk section... Don't guess you guys wanna hear my war stories, lol.

Input is good, more input is better, sir.

 

[Lowcountry_Glocker]

Call me lazy, but I try not to. We are on 12's, so it is I think 85.5 hrs a check (2 weeks). Sometimes I have none in that period, sometimes, it can be around 3-5. I don't sign up for any of the outside-of-late-calls OT. I really value my time off.

With the salary I am making, even covering a full extra road shift does not amount to much more $$ in my pocket,so not worth it to me.

Bout to head in tonight, day 3 of the 36 hour work weekend. nothing like cramming a normal person's whole work week into 3 consecutive nights!

 

[dx_caliber]

Call me lazy, but I try not to. We are on 12's, so it is I think 85.5 hrs a check (2 weeks). Sometimes I have none in that period, sometimes, it can be around 3-5. I don't sign up for any of the outside-of-late-calls OT. I really value my time off.

With the salary I am making, even covering a full extra road shift does not amount to much more $$ in my pocket,so not worth it to me.

Bout to head in tonight, day 3 of the 36 hour work weekend. nothing like cramming a normal person's whole work week into 3 consecutive nights!

We don't really have OT in patrol that's NOT the calls taking you over scheduled hours or court OT. However, we have more off-duty (that pays WAY better than OT) than you can shake a stick at. That's where most people make their extra $$$, not OT. On the flip side, CID works so much OT you practically never see them working off-duty jobs.

 

[JDD7]

I am at the point where I try to work as little as possible. When I do get OT when I'm on call or something I try to flex it out and get an extra day off to go fishing or hiking. Just me though.

 

[vista461]

Not too much for me. I enjoy my time off. If I’m working ot it’s usually a late call that I’m finishing up, with a report that has to be done right away.
There are plenty of checks with no OT but now and then I end up seeing dayshift when I leave (I’m normally seconds). Lol

 

[ranger1968]

Generally around 500 hours per year; that may sound like a lot, but in reality it's only 3 extra days a month , making it a total of 17 work days a month instead of 14 , along with a few callouts and pre-planned events that a team I am on handles as approved overtime....

ALL of that goes to my highest 5 years, and will be a nice boost for my final pension amount, which is just a few years out.....

 

[Dukeboy01]

We're on no overtime right now in BOI except for callouts, which means the place is a ghost town on Fridays. Back when I was a new detective, the spigots were wide open and I'd pull down double digits of overtime a week.

Now I make my extra money working off- duty. More consistent and I burn my holdovers for comptime.

 

[ZGXtreme]

I am at the point where I try to work as little as possible. When I do get OT when I'm on call or something I try to flex it out and get an extra day off to go fishing or hiking. Just me though.

That’s how I play it. The time is worth more than the cash at this point in my career.