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With donuts now over $20 a dozen and a cup of coffee topping $3, working a shift for the Los Angeles Police Department isn’t what it once was.
But with overtime pay at 1.5 times the regular hourly rate, LAPD officers aren’t having trouble footing the bill at Randy’s or Starbucks. Indeed, overtime pay has now grown so much that some detectives earn more money than the city’s mayor and the state’s governor.
Thanks to overtime, many Los Angeles police officers earn more than Mayor Karen Bass.
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In 2023, the last year for which figures are available, Detective Robert Rand more than doubled his salary through overtime, earning $324,875, according to OpenGovPay.com. That easily topped the $224,020 salary of Gov. Gavin Newsom and