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