Prison shift commanders weren't the only Butler County salaried employees to receive overtime pay in 2008.

The deputy controller, the director of property and revenue, and the deputy prothonotary, all nonunion posts, also were paid extra despite being considered exempt from overtime under state guidelines.

According to county records, deputy controller Debbie Huth earned $11,323 for 264 hours.

Her base salary is $27.22 an hour.

Controller Jack McMillin said Huth's overtime was due to his office doing a significant amount of work for other county departments.

McMillin said his office handles federal paperwork for other departments.

"We do work on behalf of the board of commissioners, the court and other row offices," he said.

McMillin said if his office didn't do the work, the county would pay an outside firm more money to do the same.

"The work doesn't disappear," McMillin said. "It has to be done by someone."

He pointed out the commissioners sign off on the overtime and Huth is paid less than her counterparts in other county departments.

The county's other two employees worked significantly less than Huth in 2008.

Ed Rupert, county director of property and revenue, was paid $617 for 12 hours overtime. Paula Painter, second deputy prothonotary, earned $387 for 14 hours.

Both employees received the overtime working as rovers for the county elections bureau on election days.

Regis Young, director of the county elections bureau, said rovers are technicians in the field who ensure voting machines are operational throughout on election days.

His annual budget includes compensation for the rovers.

Rupert said he is never reimbursed for the overtime he works as director of property and revenue.

"I put in hundreds of hours of overtime and they don't pay for it," he said.

Rupert also doesn't charge the county for mileage he puts on his vehicle under his department or as a rover.

Along with the five prison shift commanders previously reported, a sixth one also earned overtime.

Unlike the other five shift commanders who each earned between $4,625 and $19,330, Mike Rychorcewicz only received $516 for working 15.6 hours.

Warden Rich Gigliotti said Rychorcewicz doesn't seek overtime duty like the other officers, who have different financial needs, do.

The base pay for the shift commanders was $21.26 an hour.

Gigliotti on Wednesday discontinued the practice of shift commanders covering the absences of their peers, which was started more than 20 years ago before Gigliotti was hired by the county.

He previously said the practice was continued so the most experienced officers were the only ones supervising a shift.

Correction officers ranked sergeant now cover those sifts as stipulated in their job descriptions.

Gigliotti said on Monday the shift commanders' jobs are prone to absences because they are rotating shifts. The officers don't work strictly one shift.

"That's the difference," he said.

The total cost for all nine employees' overtime pay in 2008 was more than $61,000.