October 19, 2012 at 9:49 pm
#773895
TonyE
Participant
Hey more fun with math time!
The pay rate for officers with more than 4.5 years experience is $40/hr. Overtime, presumably at time and a half, would put it at $60/hr. To make $100,000.00 in overtime would therefore take around 1600 hours. That’s about 200 extra 8 hour days a year. And nobody notices if you don’t show up! If I looked good in blue I would take this job.
As a personal anecdote, my last ticket was for not having an updated year tag on my license plate (the tab was in my glove compartment on my registration, it did not impress the officer). I went to court to “fight” the ticket hoping the officer wouldn’t show up. He was there. Actually he was a nice officer though and the judge cut the fine on the ticket.