BAYONNE -- Newly retired city Fire Chief Greg Rogers will receive an annual pension of $167,118 and a payout of $231,798 for unused vacation, sick time and terminal leave, according to state and city records.

Rogers, whose annual base salary was $241,080 at the time of his retirement on March 1, served in the city Fire Department for more than 35 years and worked as fire chief for nearly eight years. He was succeeded by Keith Weaver, formerly a deputy fire chief, last week.

According to city records, Rogers, who was born in 1959, had a total of 3,335 hours of unused time but relinquished 1,235 of those hours to the city. City spokesman Joe Ryan said Rogers gave those hours back because they exceeded a cap set by his contract.

At $110.38 per hour, the remaining time resulted in the $231,798 figure, which will be paid out to Rogers in three equal chunks in July 2016, 2017 and 2018.

The breakdown of Rogers' unused time consisted of time due, banked vacation, sick incentive, terminal leave, personal days and vacation time from 2008 to 2016.

Rogers could not be reached for comment for this story.

Bayonne is the state's 19th largest municipality, with a population of 65,975, according to state 2014 estimates. Compared to Rogers, fire chiefs in Newark, the state's largest city, and New York City have salaries of roughly $197,400 and $217,932, respectively, according to online public payroll databases.

Meanwhile, Fire Chief Darren Rivers of Jersey City, Bayonne's northern neighbor and the second largest city in the state, makes an annual base salary of $177,599.

As with the other Bayonne firemen who were promoted last week, new Fire Chief Keith Weaver has agreed to delay his salary increase for a year to help the city's finances. He will retain his annual deputy fire chief salary of $207,558 in the meantime.

Weaver, who last week also stepped down from his position as coordinator of the Bayonne Office of Emergency Management, was paid a total of $10,000 for his work as OEM coordinator in 2015.

Weaver was similarly compensated on a roughly annual basis since he was appointed to the post in 2010, according to Bayonne Chief of Staff Andrew Casais. The position of OEM coordinator is paid through grants, Casais said.

Weaver's successor for OEM coordinator, Edoardo Ferrante -- who is not a member of the Bayonne Fire Department -- will be compensated as grant money becomes available. Casais couldn't say how much Ferrante will be paid since "grant monies are variable."

Ferrante also works for Verizon Communications as a manager for New York City's emergency 911 program, according to a City Hall press release.

Ferrante was formerly the deputy OEM coordinator. He was not paid in that position and acted as a volunteer in an official capacity, Casais said.

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