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Yeah I'm positive. Median in my area for police officers is 50k. While we're at it, teachers, firefighters, and (especially) EMT/Paramedics could use some love.
by knieveltech 11y ago
Yeah I'm positive. Median in my area for police officers is 50k. While we're at it, teachers, firefighters, and (especially) EMT/Paramedics could use some love.
- newman314 11y agoI'm for pay for performance here. Bonus for successfully descalating situations without taking of lives.
- viraptor 11y agoPaying for performance in a problem fixing job is dangerous. Even if you concentrate on deescalation. We already know of many cases of planted drugs. This would be just an invitation to "Hey, he had drugs (that I totally didn't plant) and I solved the situation without violence, even though he had a gun (that I also totally didn't plant)".
- jessaustin 11y agoI think many individual public servants would be happy with pay for performance, if a workable scheme could be devised. Unfortunately, public sector unions would fight that tooth and nail.
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- knieveltech 11y agoI think I understand the sentiment behind this and agree overall but have fun trying to track that metric without introducing perverse incentives.
- JshWright 11y ago> Median in my area for police officers is 50k. Yeah, most paramedics would kill for that... I make $16/hr working as a paramedic (which is why I only do it part time and keep my day job as a developer).
- knieveltech 11y agoI've made double that delivering pizza and that was almost 20 years ago. It's criminal what you guys are forced to try to live off off.