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I think it's fair considering how much it costs to live in SF these days. They also risk their lives everyday serving and protecting. You shouldn't be complaini
by Axsuul 13y ago
I think it's fair considering how much it costs to live in SF these days. They also risk their lives everyday serving and protecting. You shouldn't be complaining if a police officer makes more than you. Their potential of making money is actually peanuts compared to civilians. Do you know any police officer billionaires?
- clavalle 13y agoI do know a police officer multi-millionaire. And another that is a co-founder of a company he is doing on the side and seems to be finding some success. There are very few intellectual property clauses in their contract and it is a job that they can leave at the station door when they go home in terms of creative energy. Those two are admittedly outliers but when I was running events I had to (well, it was strongly suggested by the police themselves) hire off-duty police officers for $80/hour for security. Not to mention overtime which is fairly common. In short, yes they risk their lives, but these folks have more opportunity to pad their bottom line than you seem to imagine.
- erddojo 13y agoProblem is the overtime and pensions. Salary is in the ballpark.
- ForHackernews 13y agoI don't know any software engineer billionaires either. I guess they exist, but I've sure never met them, and the chance of becoming one is statistically indistinguishable from zero.