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I respect cops and all, but this is getting a tad absurd.



Police take home city's biggest paychecks

Detail work, overtime put 25 over $200,000

By Matt Viser and Donovan Slack, Globe Staff | February 22, 2007

Police in Boston were by far the city's top earners last year, with 25 Police Department employees earning more than $200,000, nearly four times the number who made that amount in 2005, according to city payroll figures released to the Globe.

Of the 125 highest paid city employees last year, all but one -- Superintendent of Schools Michael G. Contompasis, who made $221,574 -- were police officers, the records show.

Police have long been big earners in Boston, where a powerful union and private detail work have helped boost pay. But in 2006, the amounts were higher than in recent years. Police Lieutenant Timothy M. Kervin collected $240,183 in 2006, making him the top earner in a department in which 1,276 employees, about 41 percent of the force, made $100,000 or more. In 2005, 1,026 employees, about 36 percent of the force, made $100,000 or more.

City officials attributed much of the increase in police pay to increased detail work and overtime, prompting some city watchdogs to say that overtime has prevented the city from making strides toward a larger police force.

"This is one of the reasons why it's difficult for the city of Boston to add more police officers and expand the force, because the position itself is so expensive," said Samuel R. Tyler, president of the Boston Municipal Research Bureau, a business-funded group.

In 2006, the average uniformed police officer made $113,617, including $35,600 in detail and overtime pay, according to figures provided by city budget officials. Firefighters, on average, made $91,087 in 2006, including about $12,500 in overtime and detail pay. The average teacher made $62,195 in total pay.




http://www.boston.com/news/local/mas...est_paychecks/

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maverick4

I'm sorry, but this is completely ridiculous. Boston's government is a huge mess.

Pujo

The Quinn bill and mandatory police details have been the biggest pieces of crock in Boston for years, not to mention our crooked police union.

Real World

The police union is like every other union around here. Take the police union, add up all the others, and you begin to understand why people are moving out of this state in droves. All we need now is a couple of more Cadillacs, wifes aides, and some drivers licenses for illegals.

This state sucks.

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Leo Tolstoy, 1897

QuiGon

For some reason and through some manner I never fully understood, cops and teachers in Massachusetts have a reputation of being horribly underpaid servants of the general public when both groups do, in fact, receive a very generous compensation.

Pujo

That's not true for teachers, they make about $40K in Masachusetts. Though how many people only have to work 185 days a year?

maverick4

Add this on top of horribly mismanaged public works projects like the Big Dig, as well as the fact that tons of people are flooding the Massachusetts healthcare system from out of state.

Real World

The article says that the average teacher pay in Mass. for 2006 was $62,500.

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Real World

Another little fact that lots don't talk about. We're a haven for out of staters and illegals, in part, because of the freebies they get.

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Pujo

That might be very true, I'm friends with two BPL teachers but they're both in their first few years of teaching. $62,500 isn't very much for someone with a college degree, either, though.