Utilities and infrastructure agencies consistently show some of the largest exposures: * US Department of Energy: An audit identified over $18 million in inaccurate, unsupported, or improperly approved timesheet and overtime payments. * Seattle Waste Utilities: A review found $130,000 in unsupported overtime payments within the waste management division. * Philadelphia Water
Healthcare payrolls are particularly vulnerable to overtime leakage. Recent Australian and international examples include: * Australian Hospital (18-month review): Over $500,000 in incorrect or unsupported overtime payments, with one staff member accounting for a significant portion of the losses. * Ambulance Victoria (2024): Internal assessments identified more than $3.5 million
Recent audits across police departments show how widespread the problem has become: * San Francisco Police Department (2023): Overtime spend reached $108.4 million — a 317% increase in five years. Auditors identified large volumes of misallocated or inappropriately approved overtime, with total financial exposure estimated at up to $10 million. * New
Here are the questions we hear most often — answered clearly and honestly. Do we need to give you access to our systems? No. We only ever need one securely provided payroll extract. No IT access, no process changes, and no staff names are required. How quickly will we see results?
When businesses work with Overtime Solved, the difference is immediate and measurable. Success looks like this: * Full transparency and real-time control over the entire overtime budget * Hundreds of thousands — or millions — in actual savings recovered quickly * Money redirected back into mission-critical priorities instead of disappearing into waste * Ongoing protection so
Getting clarity on your overtime spend is simpler than most leaders expect. Here’s exactly how it works: 1. Share Send us one secure payroll extract (we only need basic fields — employee number/ID, date, hours, rate). No system access. No personally identifiable data. No IT involvement. 2. Reveal Within
Overtime Solved was created to make the invisible visible. We analyse a single payroll extract using proven pattern-recognition technology developed from: * real life case studies * human testimony * confidential discussions with senior auditors and investigators about real cases * AI simulations of human behaviour, and * millions of data points of payroll data.
Overtime is one of the largest uncontrolled expenses in organisations, yet most leaders have almost no visibility over it. The problem is rarely deliberate fraud. Instead, it grows silently because of four invisible forces: * Employees won’t flag unnecessary overtime because it’s valuable extra income to them. * Some managers