Here is a list of the 25 county employees who received the most overtime payments in the 2011-12 budget year. The percentage in parentheses is the proportion of overtime to the employee's salary.
The figures were obtained by the Daily Press under a Freedom of Information Act request.
1) Scott Little, lieutenant/investigations -- $11,514 (23%)
2) Brandon Leigh, deputy II/law enforcement – $8,533 (23%)
3) Robert Lee Thorson, deputy I/law enforcement -- $8,179 (23%)
4) Melissa Thompson, social worker II -- $7,957 (22%)
5) Christopher Sigley, investigator II -- $7,183 (17%)
6) David Shield, lieutenant/law enforcement -- $7,130 (14%)
7) Manuel Santiago, deputy II/law enforcement – $7,023 (19%)
8) James Holloway, class I water treatment plant operator -- $6,972 (18%)
9) Jason Klink, sergeant/law enforcement -- $6,722 (15%)
10) Darron Conrad, sergeant/law enforcement -- $6,291 (14%)
11) Monique Young, social worker I -- $6,281 (19%)
12) Jo Ella Bobbi Hughes, deputy/law enforcement -- $5,862 (15%)
13) Jake Forehand, investigator -- $5,653 (15%)
14) Philip Lutz, senior deputy/law enforcement – $5,590 (14%)
15) Virginia Deptola, water treatment plant operator – $5,542 (15%)
16) Victor Baez-Santiago, corrections deputy – $5,363 (14%)
17) Michael Bartley, corrections sergeant -- $5,109 (11%)
18) Steven Perry, investigator -- $4,806 (11%)
19) Paul Emanuele, sergeant/law enforcement – $4,790 (11%)
20) Melissa Sawyer, dispatcher -- $4,687 (15%)
21) Richard Haynes, utility foreman -- $4,618 (15%)
22) Katie Saulman, dispatcher -- $4,556 (15%)
23) Thomas Atkinson, deputy II/law enforcement -- $4,494 (12%)
24) James Rilee, class I water treatment plant operator – $4,484 (13%)
25) Carl Shipley, animal control chief officer -- $4,479 (10%)