Comp Time Is Looking Pretty Good Right About Now

God help me if I ever end up in the Post for accruing massive amounts of overtime:

If the city ever crowns an overtime king, the title would have to go to Pablo Martinez.

A senior systems analyst at the Board of Elections, Martinez pulled in $116,123 in OT in a 12-month period ending June 30, making him the city’s top overtime earner in the 2006 fiscal year.

Martinez’s total earnings came to $197,884, more than the mayor’s official salary of $195,000.

That alone would be impressive, except that Martinez also topped the charts in 2003, with $81,021 in OT, and in 2004, when he collected $93,385.

John Ravitz, the election board’s executive director, explained that Martinez essentially runs the agency’s entire computer operation.

“I wish I had two more bodies so he wouldn’t have to work those hours,” said Ravitz.

But with salaries that start at just $46,000, Ravitz said he hasn’t been able to find qualified computer-systems workers for two open slots.

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Most of the other leading OT earners worked at the Transportation and Fire departments.

Anthony Mancino, a DOT supervising electrician who racked up $73,513 in OT in 2004, took in $108,845 this time, to bring his total earnings to $196,084.

Transportation officials told The Post last year that “overtime for ferry staff should decrease significantly” after new ferries were put into service and staffing levels were revamped.

The last of three new ferries began running in April.

But 21 of the agency’s 38 workers who made the citywide top 100 OT list had ferry duties.

One marine oiler — Theodore Archibald — earned 190 percent of his $45,082 base salary in overtime to bring his total paycheck to $130,694.