A report has found that Australia’s high-earning government officials from Northern Territory received over $3.6 million ($US2.6 million) in overpayments in the last financial year, with some of the money still not recovered. Australian Payroll Association revealed the territory’s largest employer overpaid one staff member by almost $100,000 in a single transaction, the largest payroll error made in the investigation. During the 2020-21 financial year, The NT government made a total of 2,365 overpayments totalling millions paid to 1,443 employers, Auditor-General Julie Crisp found in her latest report. “My review of the data related to salary overpayments highlights the necessity for management to be vigilant at all times,” Crisp said. While “management has a responsibility to ensure financial losses are recovered in a timely manner,” and the majority of the recent overpayments were paid back in four months, $1 million was still outstanding as of August last year. There are …