No wonder California is bankrupt. For that matter, no wonder governments in general are broke...
Source: Search for State Worker Salaries, (2011, April 6), Sacramento Bee.
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Holy Crap!!! Civil service ain't what it use ta be. Why the BLEEP did I borrow $80K (and spend 7 years out of the workforce) for biz and econ courses? Mid-career and a decade after getting an MBA I'm earning less than a third of what these guys are raking in. Plus their benefits are much more generous than mine.
what really concerns me is why is a patrolman earning more than an assistant commissioner?
It might seem like a large sum, but these men and women put their lives at stake everyday in the name of public safety. What do you think their life is worth?
VERY misleading article here. The amounts cited for Lieutenants and above include base pay plus pay for vacation hours not taken during the course of the career. Unused vacation hours go into a bank which generates zero interest and is paid at the end of the career. Pay raises, however, carry over to compensation calculations. THAT said, here's the MOST misleading part (intentionally, I believe): Final compensation for the purposes of retirement calculation does NOT (I'll repeat, does NOT) include compensation for unused vacation pay. Rather, it is based solely on base pay. Ditto for Sergeants and below. Overtime pay for these folks also does not count when calculating retirement compensation. To put it into perspective: A SENIOR Sergeant (18 + years of service) earns roughly $120,000 per year. This includes ALL incentive pays (exclusive of overtime pay). Final compensation for the Senior Sergeant is based on the above salary. Retirement compensation for officers is considerably less. Take what the liberal, pot stirring Sacramento Bee publishes not with a grain of salt, but a 5 pound bag of salt.
Even if "Senior" Sergeant earns $120,000 per year, does he deserve a $100,000 year pension. All this talk about putting their lives on the line, yet being a Police Officer is not one of the most dangerous jobs in this country. Being a highway worker, a liquor store clerk, etc. are far more dangerous then being a police officer. The average police officer never fires his gun on duty over a 30 year career. That is an inarguable fact.
haters...
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