Three Nassau County employees, each of them a member of the correctional center, earned over $200,000 in overtime pay in 2022, according to the Nassau County Comptroller’s office. 

The three employees were part of a total of eight county employees on Long Island that earned at least $200,000 in overtime pay last year. 

Correction Officers Michael O’Malley Michele Acquista and Correction Sergeant Patrick McCaffrey joined Suffolk County Police Offices Vincent Liberator, John Sciara, Giancarlo Baranta and Gardy Wool and Deputy Sheriff John Shultz.

Wool topped all Long Island employees with $241,717 in overtime pay last year, according to Newsday. 

The county’s police department, which takes up about half of Nassau’s payroll budget, paid current or former employees $505.5 million in 2022, according to the comptroller’s office. 

Second behind the police department was the correctional center, which paid a total of $122.3 million to current or former employees last year. 

In total, Nassau paid 15,236 former or current employees a total of $1.05 billion last year, a 5% increase from 2021. 

County workers that earned over $200,000 increased 24% from 2021 to 2022, according to the comptroller’s office. Those 971 in 2022 accounted for nearly a quarter of the total payroll. 

Among those 971 employees, 942 of them, or 97%, work in the county’s police department or correctional center staff, according to the county comptroller’s office. 

Efforts to reach a representative of the Nassau County Police Department was unavailing.