“Why do they get to retire at age 45 with a guaranteed pension of 65 percent of their last year’s pay — as state police in New Jersey do?”
You can bet that over 90% of the overtime hours are being worked by those about to retire!
"Babysitting" construction zones on the PA Turnpike.
L/E is especially lucrative. NJ Correction Officers retire at 45 with free healthcare, a lump sum payout for “banking” sick/vacation/comp time, plus a stratospheric monthly pension check, and an annuity. You can then “retire” into a six-figure govt job collecting your six-figure pension plus free family healthcare till you die.
If you want a real sweet life become a NJ TRANSIT CONDUCTOR... NO schooling needed. They hire straight from the streets of NEWARK. At a $65k entry-level base pay, w/ overtime, you make $100k just to walk up and down collecting tickets. You work 10 hour shifts every so often. But if you sign up for 16 hour shifts, you can hang out at the gym or watch TV while being paid 8 hours of OVERTIME when you really worked 2 hours.
REMEMBER, that counts towards your pension and the pension for your SPOUSE. YES, a NJ TRANSIT CONDUCTOR's SPOUSE gets a PENSION TOO------50% of the PENSION a NJ TRANSIT CONDUCTOR gets..... not for working on the railroad. .....just by being married to a RR employee.
Play your cards right, son, and you will retire a multi-millionaire working for the state of NJ.