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Well, your first claim that in "many states cops earn more than software engineers", seems completely untrue. I simply went on the BLS website (that you mentio

Well, your first claim that in "many states cops earn more than software engineers", seems completely untrue. I simply went on the BLS website (that you mentioned) and looked. In all 12 states with the lowest SDE salaries, the SDE mean wage is still higher than the police, and in all 10 states with the highest police salaries, their mean wage is still less than SDEs. I also spot checked other random states and have not found a single one where police get paid more. Look for yourself, data from May 2023: https://www.bls.gov/oes/2021/may/oes151252.htm https://www.bls.gov/oes/2021/may/oes151252.htm https://www.bls.gov/oes/2023/may/oes333051.htm https://www.bls.gov/oes/2023/may/oes333051.htm

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cherry_tree 2y ago
Did you read the note on the annual mean wages column? > (2) Annual wages have been calculated by multiplying the hourly mean wage by a "year-round, full-time" hours figure of 2,080 hours; for those occupations where there is not an hourly wage published, the annual wage has been directly calculated from the reported survey data. It is not accounting for overtime pay at all, it’s using the hourly wage multiplied by what they consider to be full time employment. From your links a software developer makes 63$ per hour in Napa, CA while a cop makes 59$ per hour, it wouldn’t take much overtime at $88.50 to surpass the salaried developer in yearly income. Cops also get pensions in many areas, so if we consider total comp I think it’s safe to say there are places where police are making more money than software developers.