Supplemental income

After a couple of years, the pants pockets of a New Jersey public works inspector are getting a well-deserved break.

Thomas Rica, 43, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to stealing $460,000 worth of quarters over the course of more than two years.

Rica apparently used a master key to enter a Ridgewood Village Hall room loaded with parking-meter quarters, taking regular deposits in the hundreds of dollars every couple of days. To avoid detection, he would deposit the coins in machines at several different bank branches.

Rica finally was caught in the act last year in the middle of a $500-plus heist, Time reports.

"It was just temptation," Bob Galantucci, Rica's attorney, told the New York Post. "He was in a room with a lot of money. He was raising a family. As a result, he thought he would supplement his income with that."

The penalty for bagging more than 1.8 million quarters? Not much with the guilty plea -- Rica won't have to go jail, but he will have to return the money he stole within five years, including a lump sum of $69,000.
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Supplemental income: additional funds earned through a means that is different from your normal income stream

It is sometimes also qualified as not a living wage.

If he considered almost a quarter million dollars a year supplemental income, it does make me wonder what his salary is.