Agency seeks to stem pension spiking by public workers

When auditors recently reviewed payroll data for the city agency that operates ambulances, they discovered that the 10 highest-paid employees worked huge chunks of overtime, more than doubling their annual salaries on average. The top-paid Emergency Medical Services worker, for instance, earned nearly $150,000 in non-holiday overtime pay in fiscal 2009, significantly boosting a base salary of $60,072.

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