As pay packages for Port Authority cops continue to soar, the case for scrapping the PAPD grows stronger by the day.

As the Empire Center reported Tuesday, the insanity brought the average pay for the PA’s 8,169 employees to nearly six figures — $99,654 — in 2017, up 1.7 percent over 2016’s astronomical levels.

The 1,776 PA cops averaged $132,414. Some 214 PAPD employees got more than $200,000 each; eight, more than $300,000.

And Sgt. Kevin Cottrell raked in a jaw-dropping $403,028, with $214,835 from OT — after drawing a whopping $319,922 last year.

Cops’ pay includes not just base salary and overtime, but comp-time cash-ins, longevity bonuses and more. The OT (which in turn boosts pensions) is driven by obscene “contractual issues and a culture within the police department,” as ex-PA commissioner Ken Lipper has put it. Indeed, the 400-page contract is 10 times the length of NYPD cops’.

That’s partly why Judith Miller and Alex Armlovich in an in-depth 2016 City Journal analysis called the PAPD one of America’s “most overpaid, poorly supervised and unresponsive forces.” It’s “a weak link” in the area’s “public-safety profile,” they warned.

The sky-high police pay helps explain why drivers must shell out a whopping $15 for PA bridge and tunnel tolls. It’s got to stop.

Last year, we urged the agency to rein in the abuses as it renegotiated the police-union contract, which lapsed in 2010. Those talks continue — as do the obscene payouts. Far better to just ditch the PAPD altogether and hand the job to cops who can do it better — and for less.