Well, what am I doing here?? Looks like it's time to get a job rounding up drunks in Arcata.
California Highway Patrol salaries
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Re: California Highway Patrol salaries
#112Did anyone tried last page? ==== PUBLIC SAFETY DISPATCHER, CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATRO 2007: $0.00 2008: $80,814.55 2009: -$80,814.55 ==== What does negative salary mean? Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/statepay/?name=&agency=CALIFORNIA+...
Hopefully they refunded the state their salary, realizing how excessive and improper it was. A guy can dream, right?
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#113Wait, think about what you're complaining about—do you want your police to be low paid so they are more susceptible to bribes and corruption? Like they are in many other countries? And California is on the border with Mexico where massively funded global drug cartels operate. If the average cop salary is set at some X amount higher than non-cops, then they are Y percent less likely to be on the take. If our police ar…
Officers at 2008 pay levels (around $150K) are not "low paid." That's a lot of money. $250K is just insane.
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#114Anyone notice the Med School profs making 1.5M/year? Wow.
They're worth every cent. Teaching and research medicine improves patient outcomes and is ultimately for generations other than our own.
What? Your comment would seem to imply that it is normal and acceptable for a single med prof to earn $1.5m. Are you really that out of touch to think that this is sustainable?
Let me guess - you were one of those complaining about how the education bubble is just terrible a few months ago?
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
A head football coach who does well at a school like Cal can bring in revenue many multiples of $2 million per year. Unfortunately for Cal, that's not the case currently...
No one wants to hear this -- but why does everyone involved with college football make money except for the players? The schools have colluded to fix the players pay at 1 full scholarship. College football is treated like a business in all areas except for players pay, why shouldn't there be a free market for their services?
Shhh!!!
No one is supposed to talk about the plantation system in the ivory tower. Some of them do get compensation like, tuition, room & board, tutoring and free jerseys. The ones that don't are supposed to do it for the love of the game!
But life-altering injuries and head trauma are totally worth it. /s
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
"... but I do have to wonder about the skill level. I'm sure it's harder than I think but the job still boils down to parking on the side of the freeway, spotting violators, chasing them for about a minute and then writing them a ticket. Is that really worth $48+ an hour? ..." Non verbals, body language, dealing with highly charged emotional people - all these skills aren't readily acknowledged but required to police…
dealing with highly charged emotional people Sometimes I wish we could just delete extremely violent emotion from the genetic code. People living their lives rationally as well as emotionally would make for a much better world.
no love without hate, though....
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wouldn't trade jobs with a CHP officer either but I do have to wonder about the skill level. I'm sure it's harder than I think but the job still boils down to parking on the side of the freeway, spotting violators, chasing them for about a minute and then writing them a ticket. Is that really worth $48+ an hour? Because that seems to be around the average pay (The CHP has a very powerful union so their base pay hou…
Actually, the skill level is fairly high. The CHP academy is around 7 months long. Training is similar to boot camp. They train physically, high speed and safe driving techniques, weapons training, and of course they have to learn the vehicle code (it's a LOT bigger than you might think), and how to write reports. Getting into the academy is fairly difficult, and many cadets washout before finishing. There are so man…
I have no doubt the training is difficult and perhaps it is a tough field to break into, but neither of those facts can justify near 100% pay increases over 2 years.
They are very obviously gaming the system in their last year before retirement to award themselves unreasonable large pensions.
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#118Wait, think about what you're complaining about—do you want your police to be low paid so they are more susceptible to bribes and corruption? Like they are in many other countries? And California is on the border with Mexico where massively funded global drug cartels operate. If the average cop salary is set at some X amount higher than non-cops, then they are Y percent less likely to be on the take. If our police ar…
I doubt anyone will argue that officers aren't owed a reasonably large salary in exchange for their training, the risks they take and their accumulated experience.
However, it is unreasonable to be giving near 100% raises over 2 year periods like we see in this data. In these cases, they are obviously gaming the system to increase their pension payouts. This is an unintended consequence of basing pension payouts on the salary of a person's last year of employment.
As mentioned elsewhere in the comments, it's very difficult to become a highway patrol officer. Just getting into the academy is hard to do. But apparently once you're in, you're set for life with a decent salary and these last-year-pay-raise games to make sure you have an unreasonably large pension as well. Artificially limiting the supply of officers in this way allows them to spread their budget over fewer people at the expensive of a smaller force.
In this system, Californians lose out not only on tax dollars that go to artificially inflated pensions, but with a smaller number of on-duty officers as well. If anything, this sounds like corruption to me.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wouldn't trade jobs with a CHP officer either but I do have to wonder about the skill level. I'm sure it's harder than I think but the job still boils down to parking on the side of the freeway, spotting violators, chasing them for about a minute and then writing them a ticket. Is that really worth $48+ an hour? Because that seems to be around the average pay (The CHP has a very powerful union so their base pay hou…
It also includes being a first responder to accidents. And watching over the cleanup of said accidents. People burned alive in cars. Children strewn across highways. And knowing every violation stop is a potential end to your life. Who knows who that driver is and what they're going to do? Do I want the job? No thanks. They're more than welcome to those salaries for what they deal with.
By that concept, army infantry should be some of the highest paid people out there. A rather dangerous job in many of the places we deploy. Yet, their pay is nowhere near this level.
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#120Wow this is weird, I went to elementary school with one of these guys and now I can look up his salary on the Internet. His 2009 pay is more than my base salary this year at Google, though I will probably make more with my bonus. However, he's on a very steep upward trend so his 2010 pay will probably be more than mine again. I don't think I'd trade jobs, though, police work isn't for me. (Edit: also just noticed tha…
If you work at Google then you might not be eligible. A lot of police departments have a maximum IQ cap that would rule out most Google employees.