Those Damn City Workers Are Overpaid

correction: the NJ salary should read $97,188.00

you forgot overtime, health and pension. Oh and what about the retirement age?

Overpaid compared to whom?

What is stopping the underpaid person from getting the overpaid job?

I don't get it ... are you saying the cops are overpaid compared to teachers?

And if so ... SERIOUSLY??? Teachers, who work in comfy classrooms, who never have to do stakeouts in cold alleys at night, who never have to work overnights, weekends, or holidays, who never have to worry about whether THIS is the day they don't come home from work ... you're saying they should be paid comparable to COPS??

When you get time and half for overtime, and then get it IN PERPETUITY when you retire, those numbers sound pretty awesome. There are base salary people under $100k that end up with $250k.

Alpo, once again you should not talk about what you know nothing about. Like New York City.

your full of shit. There is nobody who makes under $100k making $250k..

Alpo, once again, you know sh*t (and have bad grammar in demonstrating it).

This is just like your "THE MARKET IS NOT DOWN 20%. SHOW ME JUST ONE EXAMPLE" post.

"NYPD: $76,488 base pay after 5.5 years"

Not accurate. Source?

how about the pba?

http://www.nycpba.org/publications/newsletter/newsletter0808.pdf

btw, when you add in shift diferential, holiday pay, longevity pay... the number is actually $90,829

> Not accurate.

wanna try again?

The average federal worker's pay is $71,206 compared with $40,331 in the private sector. And since the *start* of the recession:

* Federal civil servants making $100,000 or more has jumped over 46%.
* Transportation Department employees earning salaries of over $170,000 jumped from 1 to 1,690.
* The federal government grew by 13,000 employees; first time increase since the 1970s.

If it bothers you this much, go get yourself one of these civil service jobs.

somewhereelse: maybe I'm not seeing what you are citing. In your link, I don't see anything that says within 5.5 years of joining the NYPD all uniforms will earn $76,488 base. That just isn't the case. They start at something in the $20'sK-30K range and inch upward. Some longer term veterans earn the type of salary you site, but not every 5.5 year beat cop with one service stripe on his forearm.

Where are you reading from in this document you site? Maybe I'm just missing it.

NYCMat- it bothers me to pay over 50% taxes and support the total compensation packages without an ability to have a say or see decent outcomes.

I second NYCMatt's and Sunday's suggestion. A couple years ago I asked people in those overpaid positions what I could look forward to if I became one of them. Cop? I'm too old, but if I were young enough, I'd look at $30,000 or so starting salary. Might have been $35K, not sure. Teaching? I'd have to enter as a "teachers fellow" or whatever they call the program for people with BAs or BSs and no education certificate or masters degree. Starting pay in the low $30s.

"If it bothers you this much, go get yourself one of these civil service jobs." How would that fix an obviously incompetent system? The solution is to do another federal (or state) shutdown, identify the "non-critical jobs," and lay them all off to save taxpayers' money.