NY Port Authority Police Make Over $300,000 A Year Thanks To "Overtime Bonanza"Chris | InformationLiberationDec. 27, 2014 |
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New York State police working for the Port Authority are making in excess of $300,000 a year thanks to endless indulgence in an "overtime bonanza." From The Record: Three years after New York State issued a scathing report criticizing what it characterized as excessive overtime at the Port Authority, 131 of the agency’s employees worked so much overtime in the first nine months of this year that they already more than doubled their annual base salaries.Your average security guard employed in the private sector is paid around $31,000 a year in the state of New York. These officers are bringing in ten times the salary of their private sector counterparts. While it's true these are the highest paid of the bunch, the base salary for a port authority officer starts at $32,361 and it's jacked up to an outrageous $90,000 after just five years of "service." That's three times more than those in the private sector as base pay, not including the insane overtime they're racking up. Public servants in theory are supposed to be "serving" the public, it used to be if you took a job with the government you get lower pay for the same job but have better job security, now you have better pay, better job security, and the people paying your salary make less than half what you do. This matches perfectly with the definition of a Kleptocracy. As it's described on Wikipedia: Kleptocracy, alternatively cleptocracy or kleptarchy, is a form of political and government corruption where the government exists to increase the personal wealth and political power of its officials and the ruling class at the expense of the wider population, often with pretense of honest service.A study from 2007, which went widely ignored, showed your average taxpayer, including those making just $30,000 annually, when you add up every last tax they're paying have an average tax-rate of around %40. Feudal serfs only paid some %10-20 of their income to their "lord," meanwhile your average American is paying double. How much longer can this lunacy continue? _ Chris runs the website InformationLiberation.com, you can read more of his writings here. Follow infolib on twitter here. |