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Police and fire fighters are doing very hazardous work. Teachers tend to have postgraduate degrees. All can be living in high cost-of-living areas where $100k d
by humanrebar 9y ago
Police and fire fighters are doing very hazardous work. Teachers tend to have postgraduate degrees. All can be living in high cost-of-living areas where $100k doesn't go as far as people think.
"Government employees" could be running departments or administering budgets that would be director-level positions in a private corporation.
But, yeah, it seems like too much to pay $600k per year for checking that applicants correctly filled in the phone number on their 124-J forms. But I'm not sure it's always that clear cut.
- scarface74 9y agoI posted this earlier, but police work statistically isn't that dangerous. There are about 421,000 police officers in the US. https://www.statista.com/statistics/191694/number-of-law-enforcement-officers-in-the-us/#0 https://www.statista.com/statistics/191694/number-of-law-enf... If you look past Fox News sensationalist headlines, they said 146 were killed in the line of duty last year. http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/06/11/americas-police-officers-are-still-operating-in-dangerous-times.html http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/06/11/americas-police-of...
- humanrebar 9y agoThose numbers might seem low to you, but that easily puts police officer in the top 25 most dangerous jobs according to this source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/careers/2018/01/09/workplace-fatalities-25-most-dangerous-jobs-america/1002500001 https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/careers/2018/01/09/work...
- scarface74 9y agoFrom the article: The most common cause of death on the job were intentional shootings, which claimed the lives of 46 officers last year. Almost as many officers died in car accidents. Only 46 actually died from intentional shootings.
- humanrebar 9y agoSo some officers are murdered and others die from traffic accidents. I'm not sure why that makes the job less dangerous.
- scarface74 9y agoHow is a police officer getting killed in a car accident any different than anyone else getting killed on the roads?
- humanrebar 9y agoIt's not. But local governments don't hire a lot of deep sea fishermen, so they don't get hazard pay that affects local budgets.
- Pinckney 9y agoPolice spend more time driving than the average person, due to the nature of the job. Writing tickets on the side of the road is also hazardous. The job increases their risk of dying in a car accident.
- rayiner 9y agoPointing to teachers’ education levels is highly misleading. Teachers overwhelmingly have post-secondary have degrees that have little value in the market (often even negative value). That’s not a reason to pay them more.