How much does Charleston County spend on overtime?
$12.7M in FY2025, across 49 budgeted overtime lines.
Charleston County's own line-item budget books, actual (spent) figures, FY2018-FY2025.. As of 2026-08-07.
The series, with its holes shown.
| Year | Amount |
|---|---|
| FY2018 | $12.2M |
| FY2019 | $12.6M |
| FY2020 | $12.7M |
| FY2021 | $11.8M |
| FY2022 | $12.5M |
| FY2023 | $12.8M |
| FY2024 | $14.7M |
| FY2025 | $12.7M |
Before FY2018 is not in this series. outside the budget books we hold (FY2021-FY2027 books carry actuals back to FY2018). It is absent rather than estimated.
The counting rule, so you can disagree with it.
Sums every budget line whose name contains 'overtime' at the actual (spent) basis, across all departments. 'Actual' is money spent, not the adopted budget. The same dollar is not double-counted: one figure per (department, object, year) as the book prints it.
Every figure here came from these documents.
- Charleston County FY2027 Approved Line-Item Budget pulled 2026-08-07
- Charleston County FY2027 Proposed Line-Item Budget pulled 2026-08-07
- Charleston County FY2026 Approved Line-Item Budget pulled 2026-08-07
- Charleston County FY2025 Approved Line-Item Budget pulled 2026-08-07
- Charleston County FY2024 Approved Line-Item Budget pulled 2026-08-07
- Charleston County FY2023 Approved Line-Item Budget pulled 2026-08-07
- Charleston County FY2022 Approved Line-Item Budget pulled 2026-08-07
- Charleston County FY2021 Approved Line-Item Budget pulled 2026-08-07
Source: LocalGovData, as of 2026-08-08. Figures are aggregate. We do not publish payroll, or anything else, attached to a named individual.
This is one answer. There are a few hundred thousand more.
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