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I am extremely skeptical of a cop in LA making 400k/year. My skepticism is supported by the fact the police chief of LA makes 350k [0] [0]https://www.bizjourna

I am extremely skeptical of a cop in LA making 400k/year. My skepticism is supported by the fact the police chief of LA makes 350k [0] [0]https://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/news/2018/11/21/public-paychecks-americas-police-and-fire-chiefs.html https://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/news/2018/11/21/publ...

raxxorrax 7y ago
It probably depends how well you utilised the war on drugs for your own personal side business.
didgeoridoo 7y ago
Chiefs don’t pull overtime. There’s a mid-level cop in Oakland who made over $500k last year by (legally) abusing the overtime system: https://reason.com/2019/06/12/how-oakland-cops-gamed-the-system-to-earn-30-million-in-overtime-pay/ https://reason.com/2019/06/12/how-oakland-cops-gamed-the-sys...
dougb5 7y ago
Whenever public sector salaries are discussed in the news, the outliers are highlighted, never the median or the mean, giving readers a warped sense of what cops and firefighters make. Sure, some workers put in a lot of overtime hours and make gobs of money, but the typical salaries are not enough to live comfortably in the cities that they serve. For example, Glassdoor says the mean LAPD cop makes $76k --https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/LAPD-Police-Officer-Salaries-E135741_D_KO5,19.htm https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/LAPD-Police-Officer-Salarie... and the mean SFPD cop makes about $100k -- https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/san-francisco-police-officer-salary-SRCH_IL.0,13_IM759_KO14,28.htm https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/san-francisco-police-offi...
- conanbatt 7y ago
  Glassdoor is less reliable than the actual data the state provides in transparent california. Also Glassdoor doesn't count benefits which are almost half the salary.
  - scarface74 7y ago
    You can’t use benefits to pay for housing - the topic of the submission.
    - conanbatt 7y ago
      Yet you have to have pay the taxes that go to benefits.
- tooltalk 7y ago
  I believe NYPD cops make similar amounts, but that's without overtime. They often get x 1.5 for OT and they can easiyl double their annual salary to $150k - $189k after 4-5 years in service.
tooltalk 7y ago
$400k sounds a bit high, though it's not unheard of. In NYC, there are thousands of public employees at MTA and NYPD collecting over $150K annually just a few years in service and I'm not talking managerial or chief positions. Some corrupt safety inspectors were reportedly collecting over $400K at the Long Island Railway years back and the governor promised to fix that (didn't), but those are still outliers.

raxxorrax 7y ago

It probably depends how well you utilised the war on drugs for your own personal side business.

didgeoridoo 7y ago

Chiefs don’t pull overtime. There’s a mid-level cop in Oakland who made over $500k last year by (legally) abusing the overtime system: https://reason.com/2019/06/12/how-oakland-cops-gamed-the-system-to-earn-30-million-in-overtime-pay/ https://reason.com/2019/06/12/how-oakland-cops-gamed-the-sys...

dougb5 7y ago

Whenever public sector salaries are discussed in the news, the outliers are highlighted, never the median or the mean, giving readers a warped sense of what cops and firefighters make. Sure, some workers put in a lot of overtime hours and make gobs of money, but the typical salaries are not enough to live comfortably in the cities that they serve. For example, Glassdoor says the mean LAPD cop makes $76k --https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/LAPD-Police-Officer-Salaries-E135741_D_KO5,19.htm https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/LAPD-Police-Officer-Salarie... and the mean SFPD cop makes about $100k -- https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/san-francisco-police-officer-salary-SRCH_IL.0,13_IM759_KO14,28.htm https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/san-francisco-police-offi...

conanbatt 7y ago
Glassdoor is less reliable than the actual data the state provides in transparent california. Also Glassdoor doesn't count benefits which are almost half the salary.
- scarface74 7y ago
  You can’t use benefits to pay for housing - the topic of the submission.
  - conanbatt 7y ago
    Yet you have to have pay the taxes that go to benefits.
tooltalk 7y ago
I believe NYPD cops make similar amounts, but that's without overtime. They often get x 1.5 for OT and they can easiyl double their annual salary to $150k - $189k after 4-5 years in service.

tooltalk 7y ago

$400k sounds a bit high, though it's not unheard of. In NYC, there are thousands of public employees at MTA and NYPD collecting over $150K annually just a few years in service and I'm not talking managerial or chief positions. Some corrupt safety inspectors were reportedly collecting over $400K at the Long Island Railway years back and the governor promised to fix that (didn't), but those are still outliers.