BENEFITSAs we've asked before, "Is this what NYPD's low pay is leading to?"
NYPD Police Officers will earn $75,000, on average, after 5 1/2 years of service (See our Web site for further details.)
Excellent promotional opportunities
A choice of paid medical and dental programs
20 Paid vacation days your first year
27 Paid vacation days after 5 years of service
Unlimited sick leave with full pay
Optional retirement at one half salary after 20 years of service
Annuity fund
Earnings include base salary, average overtime and night shift differential, holiday pay, and uniform allowance.
Right. Try getting this deal in the private sector. Particularly with the education level required.
Plus you can't lift a finger to them.
In a high cost of living place like NYC, $75K/year ain't nothing compared to what some folks get elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteEvery year, San Francisco publishes the incomes of everyone on the city payroll that makes $100K+ and the last time I looked (like 7 years ago) there were LOTS and LOTS of cops and bus drivers that made the list. Why? High salary plus overtime.
To be making only 75K after 5 years in a place where just the parking space at your apartment building costs hundreds of dollars a month really isn't all that much, especially when they are counting OT and shift differentials, etc in that number.
Granted, they have some nice perks, but lots of places give unlimited sick time to salaried people (abuse it and see if you still have a job, though) and teachers get over 3 months paid time off each year along with great pay and benefits.
Oh, if you don't think teachers get good pay, you haven't seen the numbers lately. The NEA and the teachers like to heavily push that they are underpaid, but they aren't. Compared to other jobs with similar requirements, they are way above average.
It's almost twice the median income from the 2000 Census, GG.
ReplyDeleteA lot of good people being taxed to support the enforcers are getting by on significantly less.
They forgot to list some of the benefits, such as "blank check to commit mayhem:.
ReplyDeleteThere are a slew of other NYPD "only one" perks; free travel on all commuter rail lines in and out of the city (this adds up to hundreds of dollars a month for the average non "only one." Free parking anywhere in the city, should they decide to forgo public transportation. First dibs on all prime spots for events in the city, Thanksgiving Day parade, etc. My favorite is the blanket immunity NYPDers receive for all the little infractions that only we suckers must be held accountable for, running red lights, speeding, talking on cell phone and on and on. Now apart from all that and the benefits David posted, it really is a crummy job!!!
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