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Originally Posted by Homeslice
$26K starting salary in a small town, maybe.........But the starting salary in a decent-szize town could easily be $50K. And then it just goes up from there...... It's not like the typical job that only gives you a 3% raise a year.
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Gwinnnett County Georgia (probably the most well funded county in the suburbs of Atlanta) starts around 26-28. I'm sure NYPD gets more but cost of living is a bitch up there too so they might as well come down here. Now granted their benefits and retirement packages kick ass but not worth getting shot at for that.
Even if cops do get 50k+ then that means there is some government hack desk jockey making 75k somewhere else for doing nothing. Then there are the lowlifes who make welfare, foodstamps, HUD, etc, etc, etc and probably come out better than the police. And again they are the ones shooting at the cops and the firefighters in the first place.
Of course if they cut their vice cops and drug enforcement they probably could give a fat raise across the board but then there would be job cuts too.