Many FBI agents are struggling to make ends meet. Housing costs are to blame
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Re: Many FBI agents are struggling to make ends meet. Housing costs are to blame
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Re: Many FBI agents are struggling to make ends meet. Housing costs are to blame
#3>In New York, for example, starting salaries for FBI agents hover around $73,000. But a nonprofit group in the city reported people need to earn at least $100,000 to afford food, housing and transportation there.
Does this hold truth? I know it's expensive city, but 73k is also median salary here, do they want to say that more than half people here cannot afford basic needs? That doesn't sound right
Re: Many FBI agents are struggling to make ends meet. Housing costs are to blame
#4The problem is the FBI uses mostly the same GS pay scale as the rest of the federal government. So if the pay stinks for them, it also stinks for every other government agency.
And that’s a much bigger problem then Mulder and Scully not making rent.
Re: Many FBI agents are struggling to make ends meet. Housing costs are to blame
#5>In New York, for example, starting salaries for FBI agents hover around $73,000. But a nonprofit group in the city reported people need to earn at least $100,000 to afford food, housing and transportation there. Does this hold truth? I know it's expensive city, but 73k is also median salary here, do they want to say that more than half people here cannot afford basic needs? That doesn't sound right
I knew people making 100K in California spending up to 60% of their income on housing.
Housing prices are destroying everything.
Re: Many FBI agents are struggling to make ends meet. Housing costs are to blame
#6The FBI is too big... hopefully this will be a disincentive to not look for jobs there. Every state already has its own police force. There's no need for a massive federal agency to do the same type of stuff.
Re: Many FBI agents are struggling to make ends meet. Housing costs are to blame
#7>In New York, for example, starting salaries for FBI agents hover around $73,000. But a nonprofit group in the city reported people need to earn at least $100,000 to afford food, housing and transportation there. Does this hold truth? I know it's expensive city, but 73k is also median salary here, do they want to say that more than half people here cannot afford basic needs? That doesn't sound right
I knew people making 100K in California spending up to 60% of their income on housing. Housing prices are destroying everything.
What about the free enterprise????
Re: Many FBI agents are struggling to make ends meet. Housing costs are to blame
#8>In New York, for example, starting salaries for FBI agents hover around $73,000. But a nonprofit group in the city reported people need to earn at least $100,000 to afford food, housing and transportation there. Does this hold truth? I know it's expensive city, but 73k is also median salary here, do they want to say that more than half people here cannot afford basic needs? That doesn't sound right
73k is definitely the median, but the disconnect with 100k is due to the shortcuts people probably take vs what the nonprofit reports.
For example, people may be getting roommates, living with family, Getting packages dinners, etc to make ends meet.
Also NYCHA (public housing) has hundreds of thousands of residents who definitely mostly make below 70k. That’s probably bringing the median down.
Re: Many FBI agents are struggling to make ends meet. Housing costs are to blame
#9The FBI is too big... hopefully this will be a disincentive to not look for jobs there. Every state already has its own police force. There's no need for a massive federal agency to do the same type of stuff.
What about crimes which transcend state jurisdiction (try getting 12 different state police forces to co-ordinate and run thousands of investigations together and see how well it goes)? Or issues like counter-intelligence? Or areas where local police forces are corrupt and won't investigate?