The NYPD’s highest-paid employee — who shoveled in more than $400,000 last year — filed for retirement this week amid an internal affairs probe into her astronomical overtime, The Post has learned.

Lt. Quathisha Epps will retire just shy of 20 years with the department, sources said — an early exit that will impact her pension and cost her a $12,000-a-year supplement for cops who reach the two-decade mark.

Leaving money on the table is seemingly uncharacteristic for Epps, who raised eyebrows by pulling in roughly $204,000 in overtime last year for her administrative job in NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey’s office, payroll records show.

Sources told The Post that Epps’ whopping overtime was capped after The Post’s exclusive report last month on her pay. She was also told she’d be put back on patrol — an apparently unappetizing prospect after her cushy desk job, according to the sources.

“There is no way she was going to go out on patrol,” one source told The Post.

Epps, 51, also faced an internal affairs investigation into her overtime, sources said.

Records showed that last year she worked nearly 1,627 hours of overtime on top of her regular shift, or an average of roughly 74 hours a week.

The overtime, plus her $164,477 base salary, pushed Epps’ total compensation past $400,000 — and made her the highest-paid NYPD employee.

By comparison, her boss, Maddrey, made roughly $292,000 the same year, records show.

Epps’ eye-watering overtime rankled many rank-and-file cops.

“What administrative work requires you to stay there 115 to 120 hours every f–king month to apply that type of money?” one Bronx cop griped to The Post last month.

With patrol duty and a probe looming, Epps filed paperwork Monday for a vested separation retirement, according to information obtained by The Post.

Her last day will be Jan. 14.

The early retirement after 19 years means she’ll receive roughly half of what she put into her pension, but she’s still slated to collect about $16,000 a month, sources said.

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Chief Maddrey’s most recent academic achievement came on May 21, 2023 when he graduated from Touro University Law School with his Juris Doctor.

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“He said he dreamed about f–king me in my a–,” Epps alleged. “I said, ‘But Chief, you’re the Chief of Department.’ He rubbed his chest. . . . His work pants were open. He was like but ‘I’m still a n—-r and you look good.”

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