Federal Workforce: Overtime Pay Practices of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

In response to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the use of overtime pay at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to determine the: (1) amount of money FBI spent on overtime over the last 10 years, including administratively uncontrollable overtime (AUO) paid to special agents; (2) types and adequacy of documentation for overtime use; (3) possible use of overtime as a salary supplement; (4) extent of overtime availability during recruiting activities; (5) results of internal investigations of falsified overtime records during the last 5 years; and (6) internal controls FBI used to ensure that overtime payments were proper.