The NYPD’s highest-paid worker — who shoveled in greater than $400,000 final yr — filed for retirement this week amid an inner affairs probe into her astronomical additional time, The Submit has realized.
Lt. Quathisha Epps will retire simply shy of 20 years with the division, sources stated — an early exit that may influence her pension and value her a $12,000-a-year complement for cops who attain the two-decade mark.
Leaving cash on the desk is seemingly uncharacteristic for Epps, who raised eyebrows by pulling in roughly $204,000 in additional time final yr for her administrative job in NYPD Chief of Division Jeffrey Maddrey’s workplace, payroll information present.
Sources advised The Submit that Epps’ whopping additional time was capped after The Submit’s unique report final month on her pay. She was additionally advised she’d be put again on patrol — an apparently unappetizing prospect after her soft desk job, in keeping with the sources.
“There isn’t a approach she was going to exit on patrol,” one supply advised The Submit.
Epps, 51, additionally confronted an inner affairs investigation into her additional time, sources stated.
Data confirmed that final yr she labored practically 1,627 hours of additional time on high of her common shift, or a mean of roughly 74 hours every week.
The additional time, plus her $164,477 base wage, pushed Epps’ whole compensation previous $400,000 — and made her the highest-paid NYPD worker.
By comparability, her boss, Maddrey, made roughly $292,000 the identical yr, information present.
Epps’ eye-watering additional time rankled many rank-and-file cops.
“What administrative work requires you to remain there 115 to 120 hours each f–king month to use that sort of cash?” one Bronx cop griped to The Submit final month.
With patrol responsibility and a probe looming, Epps filed paperwork Monday for a vested separation retirement, in keeping with info obtained by The Submit.
Her final day might be Jan. 14.
The early retirement after 19 years means she’ll obtain roughly half of what she put into her pension, however she’s nonetheless slated to gather about $16,000 a month, sources stated.
The division has 30 days to research earlier than the pension goes into impact.
Epps declined to remark when reached by The Submit Wednesday.
The NYPD didn’t return a request for remark.
— Further reporting by Amanda Woods
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