Posted on 05/07/2008 7:32:51 AM PDT by SmithL
For the purpose of discussion:
Top pay for an experienced Police Officer ‘lateraling’ in to the Vallejo PD is 102,000 a year.
Top pay in the same situation at LAPD is about 74 thousand, plus a signing bonus.
$102,000 base??? And what does that come out to once they add in the gravy, i.e. overtime???
Fringes are slightly over one third. Overtime is whatever overtime is (I make it around 75 bucks an hour). In the city staff report last night, they added up salary, retirement costs, uniform costs, workman’s comp, training, recruiting, and all the usual fringes, and came to a department-wide average of 250k in taxpayer costs per sworn officer. Salaries for Sergeants, Lieutenants, Captains, Deputy Chiefs, and the Chief are included in that figure.
What a joke. Half the cities in the country are bankrupt if you factor in the future pension liabilities they have voted for themselves.
I understand that Vallejo is the capital of rap “music”. How about windfall taxes on rap?
I understand that Vallejo is the capital of rap “music”. How about windfall taxes on rap?
http://www.sfgate.com/webdb/sfpay/?appSession=8736399774961
In Vallejo, a mid-sized city of 121,000, 292 municipal employees earned more than $100,000 last year. But in Oakland, with roughly three times more residents, 1,300 city workers were paid six figures in the same period. San Jose, a city of nearly a million people, had 2,300. And San Francisco, which serves as a city and county government for its 800,000 residents, had more than 8,000.
Get a load of the OT that ‘Special Nurse’ worked.
One of the union arguments last night was that San Francisco has been running a deficit for years and it hasn’t bothered them. So, next time I’m in northern California, I’m going to book a room at the Mark Vallejo hotel, ‘cause it’s sure to be the same as San Francisco’s Mark Hopkins.
“Overtime is whatever overtime is (I make it around 75 bucks an hour).”
You can say that again. The San Jose Merc has run numerous articles showing the outrageous pay of cops and firemen. BTW, they had to sue to get the cities to release the information. The top paid officials in San Jose are not the mayor or city manager. Many police and firemen make over $200K per year. And don’t give me this baloney about how dangerous the job is. The top reason for police/firemen disability retirements is complications of diabetes.
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