NYC Drops $722M On CityTime Attendance System

theodp writes "New York City is reportedly paying 230 consultants an average annual salary of $400K for a computer project that is seven years behind schedule and vastly over budget. The payments continue despite Mayor Bloomberg's admission that the computerized timekeeping and payroll system — dubbed CityTime — is 'a disaster.' Eleven CityTime consultants rake in more than $600K annually, with three of them making as much as $676,000. The 40 highest-paid people on the project bill taxpayers at least $500K a year. Some of the consultants have been working at these rates for as long as a decade."

Can You Say ...

[WrongSizeGlass]

... oversight is on vacation? What does a project have to do to get sh!t canned? I could have not delivered a timekeeping and payroll system for 1/2 that!

Deadlines

[xerent_sweden]

I guess they need some kind of system to keep track of their timetables and salaries!

Cool..

[nurb432]

Where do i sign up?

CityTime Forever

[CyberDragon777]

Coming Soon

Re:Government Project Cost Overruns?

[Anonymous Coward]

Exactly. Government always wastes money. They should have hired a private contractor instead. It would have turned out much better that way.

Saving Money

[rlp]

They are saving money, because any off-the-shelf time-tracking software would cost much more than $722 million. Oh, wait ...

So what?

[Jeff-reyy]

If the government had done it, it would have cost even more. I am sure the free market will punish these consultants accordingly.