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To: Slapshot68

This is NOT a loaded question. What would you consider a fair salary for a fire fighter in one of the most fire-prone areas of the country. Personally, I think firefighters deserve more than the police, but I don’t have an agenda here. I wonder what their tax rate is?


20 posted on 05/08/2008 10:45:54 AM PDT by Integrityrocks
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To: Integrityrocks

I agree they should compensated fairly but $200,000?!?!?!


22 posted on 05/08/2008 10:48:29 AM PDT by Slapshot68
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To: Integrityrocks

http://agency.governmentjobs.com/vallejo/default.cfm?SearchLetter=F&action=agencyspecs&AgencyID=1108

That is the City of Vallejo’s HR page which lists salaries of firefighters. Looks like they actually make about $81k a yr base salary. The newspapers in California are famous for taking the top income earners in a department and posting it as if it is a regular salary, it is not. Most of the top incomes are made via overtime. Hubby is a retired firefighter and used to make tons of OT money. Of course he was gone from home for mnths at a time. The papers never mention it though.


23 posted on 05/08/2008 10:55:49 AM PDT by sheana
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To: Integrityrocks
What would you consider a fair salary for a fire fighter in one of the most fire-prone areas of the country. Personally, I think firefighters deserve more than the police, but ...

You don't get out much, do you.
The nature of firefighting changed radically and permanently around the mid-60s. Their salary should have been inmmediately cut in half.

35 posted on 05/08/2008 4:24:50 PM PDT by Publius6961 (You're Government, it's not your money, and you never have to show a profit.)
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