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Interesting paragraph: We found truck drivers loaded up with $262,898; city painters making $270,190; firefighters earning $316,306; and plumbing supervisors c
by RestlessMind 6y ago
Interesting paragraph:
We found truck drivers loaded up with $262,898; city painters making $270,190; firefighters earning $316,306; and plumbing supervisors cleaning up $348,291 every year. One deputy sheriff earned $574,595 last year – including $315,896 in overtime.
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- _delirium 6y agoRegarding the example of a cop who made more in overtime than his base salary: This has gotten very common in the past few decades. Police doing huge amounts of overtime with almost no approval needed (or even basic oversight that this is useful/actual work) is a problem in a lot of jurisdictions. The original idea is that you shouldn't need to get special approval for a public-safety emergency. But in practice, it's become a norm in many places, with police resisting any attempt to decrease routine use of overtime and limit it to emergencies.