I decided to take a look at my locations info.... and I got to tell you it looks pretty nice for someone WITHOUT an college degree.. but then again, they don't pay much more for the college degree..
2 years college is required except for prior military and law enforcement. A bachelors becomes a requirement for Captains and a masters is required for Asst Chief's. Education pay is $3640 for bachelors, $6240 for masters and $8840 for doctorate. A law degree is more than $10K, but they only pay that to cop/lawyers who are assigned to legal affairs. (kind of ridiculous because the cop/lawyers I know are all making ten times that in their private practices).
The good this is they reimburse tuition and mandatory fees for anyone attending an accredited college/university (at Texas school rates).
It also says you get in the $10K for overtime
Overtime cometh and overtime goeth. I wouldn't figure a budget on that. It's not unusual to walk in one morning and be told "there is no more overtime - work for comp time or go home".
and I used to know cops and they got a LOT of money on their side job...
who slept a few hours here and a few there and their spouse had to show the kids his/her photo so they knew what their daddy/mommy looked like.
You START with 7 WEEKS time off... and get to 12 weeks plus 2 more counting holidays... I never knew it was THIS good...
Okay, this is the city selling BS. Four of those Seven weeks are PFT - Physical Fitness & Training Hours. The city used to just pay everyone to go to training, or qualify with their weapons, etc. Now they give officers 20 days a year (supervisors 10 days) and make them go to training, annual firearms practice and qualification, annual physical agility testing, annual physical fitness testing, and police memorial duty all using PFT. And yes, you accrue those 20 days, but the accrual only lasts for one year, the time has no cash value unless the Department's staffing needs prevented you from taking it off, and every September any unused time is wiped off the books without compensation.
The other three weeks is not vacation time - but a combination of the old vacation time and sick leave called PTO (Paid Time Off). Lots of rules about scheduling vs unscheduled, abuse of time, accumulation, etc.
Not sure if it is 20 and out... and can not find it on the site, but not looking hard....
Totally different website, and you need a password.
For everyone hired after October 2004:
Normal retirement age is 55 with at least 10 years of service.
Benefit is 2.25% of final average pay for each year of service for up to 20 years, and 2% for each year over 20 (20 years is 45%, 30 years is 65%).
Final average pay is regular wages and extra pays that are considered wages (language, college, education/training, shift/weekend differential payments, hazardous duty pay), and
not things like clothing and motorcycle allowances, overtime, exempt pay (supervisor 'overtime'), and strategic staffing pay. Final average pay is computed as the average of the 78 pay periods prior to retirement (last 3 years).